OVER 300 KINDS OF BIRDS. 



Oniitliological researcli has shown that there are 

 accredited to Peniisvlvania, not less than 325 sjiocies 

 and subspecies ol birds, which occui- here as residents, 

 migrants, sv.inmer sojonrncrs, stragglers or extraliiiii- 

 tants. Of this large number, the majority are of 

 great service to manlcind because of tlieii' insect-eating 

 jiroclivities; nearly one-lialf of iliis umiiber ttccur as 

 breeders with us. 



A P.\RADISK FOR OOLOGISTS. 



The presence of so many species in this State during 

 the season of reproduction places Pennsylvania high in 

 Ihe list of localities to be visited by students especially 

 interested in oological science. 



SPECIES NEW TO SCIENCE. 



In this connection it is worthy of remark that the 

 note boolvs and field observations of thoroughly trust- 

 worthy naturalists show, peradventure, that certain 

 s[)ecies of birds, whose nests and eggs have never yet 

 been defiled by liuman hands, are to be found regularly 

 during the summer or breeding season, in the virgin 

 forests — so rapidly disai>pearing before tlie woods- 

 man's axe or ruinous forest fires — about tlie jiic 

 turesqueand liigher mountain peaks, with their stately 

 forest monarcbs. tlieir beautiful and ever green rho- 

 dodendrons, and other sweet-scented wibl tlowers, 

 wliicli in tlse biibiiy June days are shown in all their 

 clininis. Tliis is tlu> time the oological student should 

 lake Ills vacation to search for desired treasures, and 



