Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)

Our Passenger Pigeons came from the natural history collection of Mr Samuel Prout Newcombe, whose collection was eventually transferred to the Horniman in 1905. We do not know exactly when and where the pigeons were collected. However, the taxidermy mounts probably formed part of the Prout Newcombe collection that first went on public display in 1894, some time before the Passenger Pigeons were declared extinct.