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being poured into forest reserves some of the mil- 

 lions should be expended on behalf of our feathered 

 friends. 



It is to be hoped that the reader will enter the 

 following pages with a sympathetic appreciation 

 of the kinship of man and bird fellow-mortals that 

 face the same problems and difficulties, and solve 

 them by methods strikingly similar. In fact, we 

 cannot but feel a certain reverence for the lore of 

 bird life when we reflect that man can conceive of 

 no higher state than one in which he himself is 

 equipped with a pair of wings. 



ROYAL DIXON. 



New York, 

 May, 1917. 



