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The beautiful is as useful as the Mseixil. — Victor Htcfi^o. 



INo, i. 



BIRDS 



AND 



NATURE 



CONTENTS. 



SEPTEMBER (Helen Hunt Jackson) [Sonnet] . 



THE PALM WARBLER [Illustration] 



QLD-FASHIONED OUTINGS— Part II (Helen Mansfield) 



OUR KINSMEN (Mrs. Merrill E. Gates) [Poem] . 



THE LONG-BILLED CURLEW [Illustration] . 



ON JEWELLED WINGS (Claudia May Ferrin) 



THE EVERGLADE KITE [Illustration] . 



THE ANIMAL FAIR— Part I (Mary McCrae Culter) 



THE BIRD AND THE MOUSE (Katharine Pope) 



THE GRASSHOPPER SPARROW [Illustration] , 



A HAPPY FAMILY (L. Philo Venen) 



THE DAMSEL FLY (Alvin M. Hendee) 



FELDSPAR (Oliver Cummings Farrington) [Illustration] 



THE WOOD HARMONY (Frank Walcott Hutt) [Poem] 



THE COTTAGE BY THE WOOD (Berton Mercer) 



A NEW ARGYNNIS (Wilmatte Porter Cockerell) [Illustration] 



BUTTERFLY (M. D. Tolman) [Poem] 



A PROLIFIC PEACH TREE STUMP (Addie L. Booker) 



THE COWRIES AND SHELL MONEY (Frank Collins Baker) 



THE BIRD OF SUPERSTITION (Belle Paxson Drury) . 



THE WISCONSIN DELLS (Illyria Turner) [Poem] 



MY SUMMER NIGHT (Willis Edwin Hurd) [Poem] 



CHERRY (Albert Schneider) [Illustration] 



NASTURTIUMS (Lulu Whedon Mitchell) [Poem] 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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