INDEX. 



Volume VIII June, J900, to December, J900, inclusive. 



PAGE 

 Almond, The [Illustration] (Albert Schneider) 188 



Ant, An Hour With An (Harriet Woodbridge) . . 155 



Antelope, The Prong-Horned (Illustration) 179 



Aster, The L,ate Purple (Illustration) .. 63 



Aster, The New England (Illustration) 63 



Asters, The (Charles S. Raddin) 62 



Autumn [Poem] (Frederick William Faber) 149 



Autumn Poem] (William Cullen Bryant) 145 



Autumn Sonnet] (Henry Wadsworth I^ongfellow) 98 



Banana, The [Illustration] (William Kerr Higley ) 95 



Bantams, The Ways of Some (May H. Prentice) 152 



Bass, The Calico [Illustration] 83 



Bee Balm or Oswego Tea [Illustration] 117 



Bird Family, A Few of the [Poem] (James Whitcomb Riley ) 125 



Birds and Poets [Selection] (John Burroughs) 128 



Birds, Natural Rights of (L/ynds Jones) 8 



Bird Study (Olive Thorne Miller) 78 



Bird, To the Vesper [Poem] (Frank English) 73 



Birds, What Do We Owe the? (Lynds Jones) 72 



Black-Eyed Susan or Ox-Eye Daisy [Illustration] Ill 



Bob White [Poem] (Effie L,. Hallett) 128 



Bob White, A True Story of a Wayward (Charles Thompson) 113 



Brittany [Illustration] 34 



Buffle-Head, The [Illustration] 155 



Carnivorous Plants (John Merle Coulter) 228 



Castles in the Air (Charles Elmer Jenney) 175 



Cattle 32 



Chat, Chatter of a (Elizabeth Nunemacher) 168 



Christmas To-night [Poem] (Phillips Brooks) 226 



Columbine, The [Illustration] (James Jensen) 101 



Daisies, Sunflower and (Albert Schneider) 110 



Day and Ni^ht [Poem] (Thomas Bailey Aldrich) 132 



Debt, How We May Best Pay the (L/ynds Jones) 122 



December, [Sonnet] (Helen Hunt Jackson) 193 



December, King [Poem] (Walter Thornbury) 193 



Deep, The [Poem] (John G. C. Brainard) 139 



Dog and Its Ancestors, The [Illustration] 225 



Eagle L<ore (Phebe Westcott Humphrey) 53 



Editor's Note 144 



Fashion, Cruel Treatment of Birds Demanded by (L/ynds Jones) . 150 



Favorite Haunt, A CBerton Mercer) 227 



Fish, The Flying 144 



Fish, The Growth and Variation of (Seth E. Meek) 84 



Fish, The Origin of the [A Bird-Fish Story] (Albert Schneider) 90 



Fishes, The Geographical Distribution of (Seth E. Meek) 161 



Fishes, The Geological Succession of (Seth E. Meek) 133 



Fish's Place in Nature, The (David Starr Jordan) 14 



Flicker's Mistake, The (Nell Kimberly McElhone) 66 



Flower, A Pattern (John Merle Coulter) 2 



Flower in the Crannied Wall [Poem] (Alfred Tennyson) 68 



Flowers and Their Invited Guests (John Merle Coulter) 59 



Flowers and Their Unbidden Guests (John Merle Coulter) 119 



Fowl, The Domestic [Illustration] 125 



" Frost Spirit," Selection From the [Poem] (John Greenleaf Whittier) 169 



Garden, School 65 



Gentian, Closed or Blind [Illustration] 106 



Gentian, Fringed [Illustration] 106 



Gentian, To the Fringed [Poem] (William Cullen Bryant) 108 



Gentians, The Blue (Charles S. Raddin) 107 



