52 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW |15:2— Feb., 1919 



AA. With few or no leaves 



B. Less than 1^4 inches inside diameter 



1. With thick horsehair Hning 



CHIPPING SPARROW 



2. With few hairs, or none field sparrow 



BB. Over 2 inches inside diameter 



1 . With many or few hairs in lining song sparrow 



2. No hairs, a few leaves yellow-breasted chat 



XI. SPHERICAL NESTS OF GRASSES, BARK, OR FIBERS 



A. On the ground very thickly lined with soft grasses 



MEADOW MOUSE 



AA. In bushes or vines, usually on some old bird's nest lined 



with cotton or wool deer mouse 



AAA. In trees or about buildings 



1 . Of bark and fibers, no lining, usually some leaves or 



sticks, often on an old crow's nest. . . .squirrel 



2. Of grasses, lined with feathers. . . .house sparrow 



Gloaming 



Melicent Eno Humason 



Day flung her sun-stained mantle in the air, — 

 A mermaid, rising from the foamy sea 

 Espied the golden garment, and in glee 

 Wrapped it around her dewy form and fair. 

 Till luminous pearls, and shimmering vapors rare 

 Compassed the world, and toilers slowly homing, 

 Lifted their eyes in love, and called it Gloaming. 



It does not matter what one studies 

 so long as he is earnestly on a quest. 



ALICE GERTRUDE MCCLOSKKY. 



