VoL XIV. 



OCTOBER, J903 



The beautiful is as useful as the useful.— Victor Hugo. 



No, 3. 



CONTENTS 



[Poem] 



NATURE (Jones Very) [Poem] .... 



THE TENNESSEE WARBLER [Illustration] 



AN AUTUMN WILD GOOSE FLIGHT (Willis Edwin Hurd) 



AN HOUR AFIELD (L. O. Mosher) 



PAINTED INDIGO-BIRD (Mrs. A. E. Goetting) [Poem] 



OCTOBER WILD FLOWERS (W. R. Murphy) 



THE BLACK BRANT [Illustration] 



THE TREE OR HOUSE SWALLOW (Anson C. Allen) 



THE WIND'S CONQUEROR (Jac Lowell) [Poem] . 



THE WHITE-EYED TOWHEE [Illustration] 



SEEDS (Illyria Turner) [Poem] .... 



SOMETHING ABOUT PET SQUIRRELS (I. W. Sickels) 



THE ROBIN CONVENTION (Jessie Porter Whitaker) 



THE GREEN WOODPECKER [Illustration] . 



THE TRAGEDY OF A WAX WING (E. Harriott Palmer) 



THE HA.BITS OF THE KING RAIL (Gerard Alan Abbott) 



THE BIRD OF FOUR HUNDRED TONGUES (Belle Paxson Drury) 



AUTUMN FLOWERS ((Emily F. Bass) 



THE NESTING OF A CARPENTER BEE (Wilmatte Porter Cockerell) 

 ORNAMENTAL STONES (Oliver Cummings Farrington) [Illustration] 

 AN OCTOBER SNOW SQUALL (Mary M. Currier) [Poem] 



THE GRASSHOPPERS [Illustration] 



UNCLE JARVIS TALKS ABOUT GETTING ON IN THE WORLD (Wil- 

 liam Curtis Taylor) ...,..., 

 TO THE POPPY (J. Mayne Baltimore) [Poem] , 

 THE CHANTARELLE (Elizabeth Willis Woodworth) [Illustration] 

 THE SWEET-SCENTED SHRUB (Jessie M. Cook) 

 OCTOBER (Stanford Conant) [Poem] 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY 



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