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XIV, 



DECEMBER, J903 



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



No, 5 



BIRDS 



CONTENTS 



THE LOST NOTES (George Klingle) [Poem] 

 THE TREE SWALLOW [Illustration] . . . . 



THE OLD YELLOW HEN (Elizabeth Miles Derrickson) . 

 THE ROAD-RUNNER [Illustration] . . . , 



THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW (Nelly Hart Woodwork) 



BIRD NOTES (Bertie M. Phillips) 



THE ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER [Illustration] 

 CHRISTMAS WITH THE BIRDS (Laura May Burgess) 



JIM CROW (Paul J. Campbell) 



THE BLIND (Jac Lowell) [Poem] .... 



THE WHEATEAR [Illustration] 



SOME QUEER TROPICAL INSECTS (Andrew James Miller) 

 THE HABITS OP THE WILSON'S PHALAROPE (Gerard Alan AMbott) 

 tration] ....... 



JACK FROST (Addie E. Burr) [Poem] 



HOW WE SAW THE BIRDS— II. (Mrs. Charles Norman) 



WHO WOULD HAVE LIFE ALWAYS MAY ? (Stanford Conant) [Poem] 



THE COMMON GAR PIKE (Seth Mindwell) [Illustration] 



THE CHAMELEON OF OUR SOUTHERN STATES (Katherine C. Pen&eld*-* 



THE PEAR (Charles S. Raddln) [Illustration] 



A FEW FACTS ABOUT COFFEE (Louise Jamison) . . j 



THE GLISTENING COPRINUS (Elizabeth Willis Woodwortlj * 



THE MARY SPIDER (Wilmatte Porter Cockerell) 



SOLITUDE (Lord Byron) [Poem] 



INDEX ....... 



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