Vol. XV. MARCH, t904 



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No, 3 



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A THING OP BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER (John Keats) lt»oein] 



THE CANADIAN WARBLER [Illustration] 



TJTTLP: people op THE POOLS PART I (Helen Mansfield) /- > 



IN SPRING (Emilv F. Bass) ^r 



THE AMERICAN VULTURES [Illustration] - - - - 



THE SPRING HERALD (Creswell J. Hunt) [Poem] 



THE CALIFORNIA TOWHEE [Illustration] 



TABBIE DECEIVED BY A CATBIRD (J. Mavne Baltimore) 



A CLEVER LITTLE LADY (Henrietta Lee Coulling) 



BIRDS AND THEIR YOUNG— A QUESTION (Anson C. Allen) 



THE YELLOW RAIL [Illustration] 



AROUND A WOODLAND POND (ISdward Bamford Heaton) 



THE ART OP WINTER (Anne Wakelv Jackson) .... 



THE HABITS OF THE CEDAR WAX WING (Gerard Alan Abbott) 



[Illustration] - - . . . . . 



HOW ONE SPIDER KEPT HOUSE (Laura May Burgess) 

 THE HISTORY OF THREE LITTLE ROBINS (Emily R. Bass) 



A CURIOUS NEST (Anna Yarnall) 



SOME AMERICAN GRASSHOPPERS (Collins Thurber) [Illustration] 

 THE TEACHER (Alice Crittenden Derby) [Poem] - - ■ . 



THE KUMQUAT [Illustration] - 



HINTS OP SPRING (Frank Wolcott Hutt) [Poem] 



BIRDS' WAYS (Belle Paxson Drury) 



THE fiRACKET FUNGI (Will Sayer Moffatt) [Illustration] 



UNIQUE LANTERNS (Louise Jamison) 



A FUZZY BUZZY SONG (Belle Hitchcock) [Poem] 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY 



DirUiom of Alirdf 



UMFORD, Publisher 



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