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brids. — Experiments on certain hybrid 

 doves and thrushes they have produced. 



4. The inheritance of variations. — 

 The inheritance of a peculiar variation 

 in the color of eggs of the bluebird. 



5. Breeding and nesting habits of 

 certain native birds illustrated by ex- 

 periments within their cages. 



6. The growth of birds. — A study of 

 the growth and development of the 

 young of a typical species with notes 

 on the psychology of nestlings. The 

 relation of daily food to daily body 

 growth. 



7. The popularization of the bird 

 protection and colonization idea. 



Much of the success of the experi- 

 ments and the comfort of the birds have 

 been due to the food mixtures that are 

 carefully prepared from formulae com- 

 piled on studied theories and extensive 

 practice. The seeds for these varied 

 recipes are obtained from the well 



AN INGENIOUS ACETYLENK LIGHT DEVICE 

 FOR CATCHING INSECTS. 



known and long established house of 

 M. A. McAllister, 67-69 Cortlandt 

 Street, New York City. 



Rambles for Nature Interests. 



Is there anything more delightful 

 than the fatigue of an afternoon's long 

 ramble after objects one loves? You 

 are not tired of them, but with them. 

 It is a delicious fatigue. Subsequent 

 years of trouble cannot obliterate the 

 charmed impressions. fhey are the 

 sunniest spots in one's memory. Their 

 recollections come, like angel's visits, 

 to unconsciously relieve us in after- 

 years of many a sad trouble and trial. 

 They should be laid up in store when 

 you are young, so that they can be 

 drawn upon when you are old. Then 

 •the sunshine of youth is stored to gild 

 the troubled days of matured manhood 

 and the darker shadows of old age. 

 — The Plavtime Naturalist 



MR. 



Glorifying the Commonplace. 



But it is only the GREAT poet who 

 has the courage and the power so to 

 see things. It is only a Homer or a 

 Whitman who will pass by the pomp 

 and circumstance of life to glorify some 

 mean and "vulgar" thing — as the part- 

 ing sun will sometimes turn and speed 

 over the shoulder of the world an ar- 

 row dipped in gold to set ablaze the 

 windows of some mountain cottage, or 

 burn a needle's eye through the slender 

 village spire, leaving the casements of 

 the proud palaces in the plain all blank 

 worthington fondling a pet hawk. anc i undistinguished.— Kennedy. 



