DCHP-3

wild pigeon†

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a migratory wild pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, which appeared in immense flocks during August up to the late 19th century, becoming extinct by 1914.

Quotations

1765-75
These Wood afford Partreages . . . Rackones, sum Wild Pigins.
1830
Large flocks of the wild pigeon have been passing in the neighborhood of the city since Sunday the 12th instant.
1868
The wild pigeon has its favourite resort in the barrens during a greater part of the summer.
1908
Wild pigeons . . . were offered at figures which would be startling to people with modern ideas of value.
1959
Passenger Pigeon [was also called] wild pigeon (general). . . .