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 START A CAMPAIGN OF POPULAR EDUCATION 



Here again we have another striking example of tlitj 

 urgent necessity for Pennsylvania to begin, not in 

 coming years when our benettcial feathered friends 

 are wiped out of existence, but NOW, a campaign of 

 popular education which will correct erroneous ideas 

 so generally cultivated about the raptorial birds as 

 well as many ather wild animals. 



Since going over the bounty data from all counties, I 

 feel it to be a public duty to prepare a report on these 

 sorely abused birds which will enable every fair 

 minded individual who comes into possession of this 

 document to be able to readily distinguish every spe- 

 cies of the raptorial bird-kind credited to the fauna 

 of the grand old Keystone Commonwealth. 



NO MORE CHICKENS' HEADS FOR HAWKS. 



If bounty laws are desired by the citizens of Fenn 

 sylvania, of course they will probably be enacted, and 

 if county officials are, in the discharge of their duties, 

 called upon to determine the names of heads of differ- 

 ent kinds of birds and other animals, they should sure- 

 ly have some guide to aid them in arriving at proper 

 conclusions. To meet such an emergency, the conclud- 

 ing chapter in this work has been prepared. This 

 chapter will certainly enable any justice of the peace, 

 county commissioner or magistrate to recognize all 

 animals' heads which are likely to be presented for 

 bounty. The heads of chickens, turkeys, grouse, Eng- 

 lish Sparrows and other birds, pieces of worn-out 

 buffalo robes, the skins of colts and mules should 

 uever, in future days, be the media of depleting coun- 

 ties' exchequers as they have in former vears. 



