SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTRODUCTORY NOTES. 



The Value of Pennsylvania's Poultry— The Value of 

 Fowls and Eggs In the United States— Loss In Penn- 

 sylvania from Predatory Animals— Trap or Shoot the 

 Troublesome Hawks— Keep Your Eye on the Crow- 

 Herons, Blackbirds and Jays— The Jays— The Jay 

 Killed Birds and Squirrel— Jays are Notorious Nest 

 Robbers— Save the Birds— 20,000 Birds in Four Years— 

 A Protest from the Bay State— Save our Song Birds— 

 The Snarer in Evidence in Pennsylvania — Bird Butch- 

 ery In Pike County— Bird Exterminators in Nebraska 

 and Georgia— Passing of Familiar Birds— The Pennsyl- 

 vaniaAudubon Society— Insect Ravages— Pennsylvania 

 Loses $5,000,000 a Yeai-— The Loss In Other States- 

 Tree Inhabiting Insect Pests— Birds and Mammals as a 

 Class are Beneficial — The Snapper and a Brood of 

 Ducks— Odd Traits of Animal Character— Fishes that 

 Catch Ducks and Birds— Mud Hens are Caught— The 

 Voracious Pike — A Red Squirrel. Sparrow and Hungry 

 Chub — Forest Fires and Wild Animals— Forest Fires 

 Increasing— Serious Loss In 1S95— Of Great Interest to 

 Farmers and Sportsmen— Great Destruction of Wild 

 Animals— Locomotives Not the Chief Cause of Forest 

 Fires— Railroads Adopt the Best Preventives Known— 

 A Common Cause of Forest Fires— Careless Sports- 

 men—For the Commonwealth's Weal— Will Suffer for 

 our Blunders— Turkey Buzzards Slain— Nighthawks 

 and Whip-poor-wills Killed— Shrikes and Weasels- 

 Contains an Abundance of Instructive Data— Foolish 

 and Expensive Legislation— A Serious Blundei^— Don't 

 Advocate Unwise Bounty Acts — Birds of Prey as a 

 Class Beneficial— Only Five Were Detrimental Spe — 

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