Vol. xin. 



MAY, J903 



The beautiful is as useful as the xisefvil.—yicior Ilu^o. 



No, 6. 



DIRD5 



Plf^D 



NATUI^e 



(Translated by 



CONTENTS. 



HOMER'S HYMN TO THE EARTH, MOTHER OF ALL, 



Percy Bysshe Sbelley) [Poem] 

 THE BUSH-TIT AND ITS NEST (Illustration) 

 SWEET BALM O' GILEAD (Abby Willis Howes) [Popin] 

 BfRDS' HOMES (Ella P. Mosby) 

 THE BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK (Illustration) 

 OUK NEIGHBORS (Mary M. Currier) [Poem] 

 AN INTERESTING LESSON (Anna Yarnall) 

 THE K03IN (W. R. Murphy) [Poem] . 

 THE COMING OP SPRING (Burton Mercer) 

 . THE OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH (Illustration) 

 THE BUDDING WOODS (Sara Elizabeth Graves) [Poem] 

 BLACK BIOARD OP THE BIG SWAMP (John Jordan Douglass) 

 THE IMPEYAN PHEASANT [Illustration] . 

 A GOSSIP ABOUT MY NEIGHBORS (Nell Kimberly McElbone) 

 THE BLUEBIRD (Nelly Hart Wood worth) [Poem] 

 HABIT9 OP THE AMERICAN CROW (Gerard Alan Abbott) [Illustration] 

 THE CHICADEE'S SPRING SONG (Nelly Hart Woodworth) [Poem] 

 BIRD NOTES PROM NEBRASKA (Roselle Theodore Cross) 

 BIRD NOTES PROM NEW YORK (Leonora Sill Ashton) 

 RIVER MUD AT LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO (Wilmatte Porter Cookerell) 

 THE HYDROID CORALS (Prank Collins Baker) [Illustration] 

 THE ABERT'S SQUIRREL [Illustration] 

 SOME STRANGE CREATURES (George Bancroft Griffith) 

 A GOLFING CLERGYMAN (Bessie Andrews Dane) [Poem] 

 TWO BEAUTIFUL VINES (Jennie Owen Cochran) 

 CLEMATIS (Albert Schneider) [Illustration] 

 AFTER TWILIGHT (Jac Lowell) [Poem] 

 INDEX . 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 



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