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   ocr: Passenger - - 40 PASSENGER PIGEONS - ECTOPISTES - MIGRATORIUS) LIVED IN Pigeonsa THE - - - EASTERN UNITED STATES from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, breeding in the north and wintering in the southern part of their range. In general the habits of this pigeon were like those of its smaller relative, the mourning dove, but it was more fond of acorns, beech mast, and chest-nuts. The passenger pigeons seen here are foraging for the acorns of the pin oak. They migrated in numbers SO huge that their flocks darkened the sky. A writer once described a migrating flock of the pigeons as "a column, eight ...