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The beautiful 



NOVEMBER, i90U 



i|j^s usetul as the \i2^Mlj^Vicior Hu^o. 



No. 4. 



BIRDS 



AND 



NATURE 



CONTENTS. 



AN AUTUMN EVENING (Waltw Thombory) [Poem) 



THE PINE GROSBEAK [lUustratfon] . . , . 



THE ANNUAL NOVEMBER CONFERENCE (Loveday Almjra Nelson) 



THE FIELD SPARROW [lUustration] .... 



DISHRAG VINES (Lee McCrae) 



A SNOW-FLAKE (Thomas Bailey AUrich) [Poem] . 



NEIGHBORING WITH NATURE (SaUie Margaret O'Malley) 



THE CAROLINA WREN [Illustration] 



THANKSGIVING BY THE NINNESCAH (Mary McCrae Cutler) 



THE BLACK-POLL WARBLER [Illustration] 



TRAGEDY OF THE AIR (George Klingle) [Poem] 



OFF FOR THE SOUTHLAND (Claude May Ferrin) . 



TURQUOIS (Oliver Cummtngs Farrington) [lustration] 



TO THE MEADOW LARK (J. Mayne Baltimore) [Poem] . 



THE OUTRAGED BIRD (Fannie Sfcelton BisseU) 



NICODEMUS (Belle Paxon Drury) 



A WEED PICTURE (Mary Noland) 



THE STRIPED HYENA (John Ainslie) [Illustration] 



A BIRD INCIDENT (Mary Noland) 



GROUSE (Belle Paxon Drury) 



THE GIRAFFE (John Ainslie) [lUustration] 



THE FLAG (EUa Van Fossen) [Poem] 



IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS HAND (Ella F, Mosby) 



SONG OF THE STORMY PETREL [Pflem] 



THE SPIDER MONKEY (John Ainslie) [lUustration] 



NOVEMBER (Walter Thombury) [Poem] 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY. 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOB PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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