Vol. X. 



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SEPTEMBER, t90J. 



Tlie beautiful is as useful as the xi8eiMl.—yiciar ffura 



iDiriBion of Birds 



No,2. 



BIRDS 



AND 



ry 



CONTENTS. 



TO A HUMMINGBIRD (John Vance Cheney) [Poem] 



THE ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD LlUtutration] 



LONGING iLIoyd Thompson) [Poem] 



EXPERIENCES WITH HUMMERS (J. Mayne Baltimore) 



MY HUMMINGBIRD (Willis Edwin Hurd) [Poem] 



THE RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD [Illustration] 



WHAT A LITTLE MOUSE SAID (Jessie JuUet Knox) 



ABOUT A SPARROW (H. S. Keller) 



THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW [Illustration] 



A PLANT THAT MELTS ICE (Louise Jamison) 



THE HUMMINGBIRDS (Juliette A. Owen) 



EACH IN ITS OWN WAY [Poem] . 



THE PARULA WARBLER [Illustration] 



A DAINTY LOVER (Louise Jamison) 



A BIRD NOTE (Berton Mercer) . 



GOLDENROD (John Wesley Waite) [Poem] . 



BALLADE (Angelo Poliziano, J454-I494) [Poem] 



TOURMALINE (Oliver Cummings Farrington) [Illustration] 



THE STAR FISH (Rest H. Metcalf) 



IN THE MEADOW (Sarah E. Sprague) [Poem] 



THE INDIAN ELEPHANT (Dane Coolidge) [Illustration] 



THE WILD CLEMATIS (Jenny Terrill Ruprecht) [Poem] 



TOPSY (Martha R. Fitch) 



THE WALRUS (Dane Coolidge) [Illustration! 



TOUCHING INCIDENTS ABOUT PIGEONS (George Bancroft Griffith) 



ON THE SAN JOAQUIN (Charles Elmer Jenncy) 



THE BENGAL TIGER (Dane Coolidge) [Illustration] 



AD VESPERAM (Mary Grant O. Sheridan) [Poem] 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY. 



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