Vol. X. 



JUNE, 1901. 



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



No. 1. 



BIRDS 



AND 



NATURE 



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CONTENTS. 



Page. 



JUNE (James Russell Lowell) [Poem] . 



BULLOCK'S ORIOLE (Charles Bendire) [Illustration] 



AN AFTERNOON IN THE CORNFIELD (Mary Grant O'Sheridan) 



THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS (William Cullen Bryant) Poem] 



HOUSE HUNTING IN ORCHARD TOWN (Isabel Goodhue) 



THE SANDERLING [Illustration] 



PARTNERS (EllaF. Mosby) 



THE GREAT NORTHERN SHRIKE (Edward Brayton 

 [Illustration] ...... 



ORIOLE (James Russell Lowell) [Poem] . . 



THE FIRE-BIRD (Belle Paxson Drury) 



BRANDT'S CORMORANT (Seth Mindwell) [Illustration] . 



MATE, OR PARAGUAY TEA (Anna Rosalie Henderson) 



THE AMERICAN BUFFALO [Illustration] . 



MR. CHAT THE PUNCHINELLO (NellKimberly McElhone) 



AGATE (Oliver Cummings Farrington) [Illustration] • 



MARTYRS OF THE WOODS (George Klingle) [Poem] 



A PANSY BED (Grace Marion Bryant) 



THE MULLEN (Charles S. Raddin) [Illustration] 



THE CALL OF THE PARTRIDGE (Belle Hitchcock) [Poem] 



JIM CROW AND HIS COUSINS (Claudia May Ferrin) 



COCOA (Albert Schneider) [Illustration] 



THE CANOE-BIRCH (George Bancroft Griffith) [Poem] 



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