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the publication of a second edition of 10,000 copies, revised and enlarged, has been ordered. When this book has found its way into schools and farmhouses throughout Pennsylvania the profit to the birds, to the farmers, and to ornithology, that ought to result, is incalculable. If other states would follow such a good example, it would be an important step toward lifting the could of ignorance that hangs over the rural mind upon matters of natural history."-

(J. A. Allen, in "The Auk," VI, 1889, pp. 170-171.)