Vol. XIV 



DECEMBER, 1903 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



THE LOST NOTES (Oeorge KUngle) [Poeril] 1»3 



THE TREE SWALLOW (Illustration] . . . . . . .194 



THE OLD YELLOW HEN (Elizabeth Miles Derrickson) .... 197 



THE ROAD-BUNNER [Illustration] 201 



THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW {Nelly Hart Woodworth) [Poem] . 202 



BIRD NOTES (Bertie M. Phillips) . . . . < , . .. .203 



THE ORANGE CROWNED WARBLER (Illustratlou] .... 804 



CHRISTMAS WITH THE BIRDS (Laura May Burgess) . . . .207 



JIM CROW (PaulJ. Campbell) 210 



THE BLIND (Jac Lowell) [Poem] 210 



THE WHEATEAR [Illustration] ..... 213 



SOMK QUEER TROPICAL INSECTS (Andrew James Miller) . . ,214 



THE HAlJITS OF THE WILSON'S PHALAROPE (Gerard Alan Abbott) [Illus- 



trailpn . . . . . . . . . . 2I<5 



.tack: FROST (Addle E. Burr) [Poem] .210 



HOW WE SAW THE BIRDS— II, (Mrs. Charles Norman) . . . .220 



WHO WOULD HAVE LIFE ALWAYS MAY ? (Stanford Conant) (Poem] . 223 

 THE COMMON GAR PIKE (Seth Mindwell) [Illustration] ... 225 



THE CHAMELEON OF OUR SOUTHERN STATES (Katherlne C. Penfleld) . 22« 



THE PEAR (Charles S. Raddin) [Illustration] 2t8 



A FEW FACTS ABOUT COFFEE (Louise Jamison) . . . . .232 



THE GLISTENING COPRINUS (Elizabeth Willis Woodworth) [lUustrallon] 235 



THE Mary spider (Wllmatte Porter Cookerell) 



SOLITUDE (Lord Byron) [Poem] 236 



index 237 



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