Excerpt from The Economic Value of Pennsylvania Animals in Relation to Agriculture: Shown in the Agricultural Exhibit of Pennsylvania at the St. Louis Exposition
III. (case the gulls (upper shelf) and the SH birds (lower shelf). These birds belong to two of the orders were discussed in the second number Of the first volume Of this letin. The gulls are among our most valuable scavengers, w the shore birds include some of the choice game birds of the St While these have not such great economic importance as some 0 birds, they are certainly worthy of a place in such a collecti this.
Tv. (case 0 the ducks. (plate I, Fig. - In this ca shown the remarkable Wood Duck, which is one of our most be ful birds, nesting in a hollow log which has been placed in the of a tree for its use. A young duck is beside the parent in the n It gives a practical idea Of one of the means by which this Van ing Game Bird can be restored to the haunts in which it was so abundant. By preventing its destruction by gunners and viding nesting sites along streams where the hollow trees have destroyed, it may be possible to preserve it before it is entirely late.
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