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Seven passenger pigeons (possibly other types of pigeon as well?), a species of pigeon now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Professor C.O. Whitman, professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago.

Date 1896
Source http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=53454
Author Hubbard, J. G.

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