VoL Vni. DECEMBER, J900. 



The beautiful is as useful as the useful.— Victor Hujro 



No. 5. 



BIRDS 



AND 



NATURE 



CONTENTS. 



DECEMBER (Helen Hunt Jackson) [Poem] . 



THE WESTERN HORNED 0«^L [Illustration] 



THE OWL (Alfred Tennyson) [Poem] 



THE LONG-CRESTED JAY [Illustration] 



THE SUNRISE SERENADE (Victor A. Hermann) [Poem] 



A VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES (Mary Morrison) . 



THE FULVOUS TREE-DUCK [lilastration] . 



now THE SWIFTS CAME TO BUILD IN AUNT DORO 



THY'S CHIMNEY (Mary Grant O'Sheridan) 

 THE RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER [Illustration] 

 A WHITE TABLE IN THE WOODS (Elizabeth Reed BrowneU) 

 THE MOON-BABY (Pall Mall Gazette) [Poem] 

 THE CECROPIA AND PROMETHEA MOTHS 



(Charles Christopher Adams) [Illustration] 

 A PLEA FOR LEGISLATIVE PROTECTION (Lynds Jones 

 THE DOG AND ITS ANCESTORS [lUustrationJ 

 A FAVORITE HAUNT (Berton Mercer) 

 CARNIVOROUS PLANTS (John Merle Coulter) 

 PITCHER PLANT [lUustration] 

 MAY-APPLE (Albert Schneider) [Dlustration] 

 INDEX TO VOLUME VIU 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY. 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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