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pigeon † 
1 n. Hist. a migratory wild pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, which appeared in immense flocks during August up to the late 19th century, becoming extinct by 1914.
See also: passenger pigeon
- 1743 (1949) Its Very Rare to see any Pidgeons or doves, in these parts, or Downe by the sea side, tho in Land some hundred miles are Very Numerious, once in 12 Year I did see some millions of them, which Came from the Southwd. flying in Ranges as the Geese does, &c.
- 1794 (1954) . . . Pidgeons I understand are sometimes pretty plentiful [Lake Timiskaming, Ont.], for about 3 weeks in Summer. . . .
- 1873 (1877) Frank caught a large pickerel and M-shot a few pigeons, giving us a variety of courses at dinner.
- 1959 Passenger Pigeon. Extinct; last positively identified in the wild, 1907, Pigeon, wild pigeon (general). . . .
2 n. East the Black Guillemot, Cepphus grylle.
- 1959 Black Guillemot [is also called] pigeon (Nfld., "Labr.," Que.); sea pigeon (Nfld., "Labr.," Que, P.E.I., N.S., N.B.); . . . wild pigeon (. . . Nfld., "Labr."). . . .
- 1743 (1949) Its Very Rare to see any Pidgeons or doves, in these parts, or Downe by the sea side, tho in Land some hundred miles are Very Numerious, once in 12 Year I did see some millions of them, which Came from the Southwd. flying in Ranges as the Geese does, &c.