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his heuil nin.v be inadL' lo bouui! willi indi'sciili.-ibic 

 joy by finding; the neatly coTistiuctcd iiests and eiii;s of 

 species which the eyes of man — so far as writ ten 

 iccoi-ds are eoncei'ned — have never beheld. 



FINE TERRITORY IN WINTER. 



'I'll.- ."^Indent of iiadii-al Instory. if his wants arc inllii' 

 iiiii' of fcailicicd s|)cciinens for the cabinet, can travel 

 tile rich agricultural or wild unimproved ti'acts of 

 l'enns\]vania, and secure much material. T)iff(»rent 

 species of birds retire in the summer season to the 

 boi-eal wilds, where they rear their young and are com- 

 paratively fre(> fr-om man's despoiling hand. Aswinter 

 apjiinaches these birds migrate southward from tlie 

 land of the Eskimo and savage Polar Bear to glean a 

 livelihood which, so far as many of them are c(hi- 

 cerned, is a great boon to mankind. 



WINTER BIRDS. 



Resides these natives of the Arctic solitudes, no 

 luerons other species, some residents O'f Pennsylvania, 

 and O'thers which, for the most part, breed north or 

 south of our boundaries, are present with us in goodly 

 niimliers. as is evidenced by the fact that the winter 

 liii'ls in Teni.sylvania numiber approximately about 

 onelhird of the bird fauna. 



SOMIO ANIMALS WHICH HAVE BEEN EXTERMINATED. 



Manyyears ago Pennsylvania contained the massive, 

 .shaggy-coated Buffalo, the bulky and big-antlered Elk. 

 and the fleet fo'cted and clean limbed Virginia Deer, 

 which, with other kinds of furred, feathered and tinny 

 game, then so abundant, furnished bounteous i('])asls 

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