The beautiful is as useful as the useful.— Victor Hu^o. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



NOVEMBER (C. L. Cleaveland) [Poem] 145 



THE PILEATED WOODPECKER [Illustration] 146 



SABBATH BY THE LAKE (Carrie B. Sanborn) [Poem] ... 149 



MRS. FIG TREE'S FAMILY HISTORY (Karrie King) .... 150 



BUILDING FOR BIRD TENANTS (Lee McCrae) 153 



THE LIGHT OF THE LEAVES (Cor» May Cratty) [Poem] ... 152 



THE STARLING [Illustration] 155 



NOVEMBER (Belle A. Hitchcock) ....... 157 



THE ARKANSAS GOLDFINCH [Illustration] , . . . , .158 



TRAGEDY IN BIRD LIFE (George Kllngle) 161 



THE LIFE OF AIRY WINGS (M. Evelyn Lincoln) 162 



THE CELESTIAL BIRD (Belle Paxson Drury) 164 



THE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER [Illustration] 167 



SOME BIRD WONDERS [L. Philo Venen) ...... 168 



THE DIAMOND (Oliver Cummings Farrington) [Illustrationj . . .170 



INDIAN SUMMER (M. D. Tolman) [Poem] 176 



THE HORNED TOADS [Illustration] 179 



DOWN IN DIXIE LAND (Lee McCrae) 180 



MY BAT (Martha R. Fitch) 181 



THE ATLAS MOTH [Illustration] ...,..• 182 



WHEN BILLIE CAME BACK (Rowland Watts) , .... 185 

 BEAUTIFUL VINES TO BE FOUND IN OUR WILD WOODS— H. (J. O. 



Cochran) . . • , .186 



COMPTIE (Mary Stratner) 187 



THE RIVER PATH (Frank Farrington) [Poem] 



THE EGG PLANT (Albert Schneider) [Illustration] .... 191 



A MYSTERY (Edward O. Jackson) [Poem] 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY. 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



A. W. MUMFORP, Pxiblisher 



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Ooppright 1902 Jff A. W. Mumf0rd. 



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