SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



MISCBLiiANEOUS 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 Bii'ds 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 Year— 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 Blunder— Don't 

 Advocate Unwise Bounty Acts — Birds of Prey as a 

 Class Beneficial— Only Five Were Detrimental Spe — 



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