Immense numbers of wild pigeons are now in the woods surrounding our village. They are fat and plump, and it seems the sportsman's harvest. We heard of a person who had taken about six hundred in a net the present season.
April 3, 1856. [Immense numbers of wild pigeons surrounding St. Clairsville.] Belmont Chronicle 8(26): 2. Published at St. Clairsville.