Pigeon Roosts Fifty Years Ago

irigeon itoost, focott county, ma., reoeived its namefrom iis being thenightly rendezvous of the passenger or wild pigeon. Tiiese pigeons usually selected Eome heavily vvooded or elevated locali;y for their roostiug, bordering on their feediug grouiids, which might be several hundred mile iu exteut. Thepigeons usually coiumeuced to arilvebeforesnnset and coutiiiïud iu iucreasing uuuasers uctil after ïnidnight. At dabreak the bird-s iu to leave tho aud ou swift wjij.; departfor (heir fp.edug grounds, m y, retnruiog at uight, as statcd. It nuiy sfely ht aid bat these bin'.s rauged the, forvsi of Indiana from the Wabash to tho Ohio, and exteuding far into Kcntnoky. L'o arge were their roosts that they became ooalities of greut interest. Ñone was more famons than the one in Pinley ownship, Scott county, Ind. ; henee the name of thesettlement earlv established