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



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BIRDS 



AND 



NATURE 



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CONTENTS. 



OCTOBER (Helen Hunt Jackson) [Sonnet] 



THE YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER [Illustration] . 



THE REIGN OF THE WHIPPOORWILLS (Frank English) [Poem] 

 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET (Juliette A. Owen) 

 THE CORN SONG (John Greenleaf Whittier) [Poem] 

 THE OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER [Illustration] 

 THE COMING OF MISS OCTOBER MONTH (Loveday Almira 

 Nelson) ....... 



THE TREE SPARROW [Illustration] .... 



THE SPARROW'S BEDTIME (Adene Williams) [Poem] 

 THE SPARROW FAMILY (Narcissa Lewis) 

 MR. AND MRS. SPARROW'S BLUNDER (Lee McCrae) 

 A WINDOW-PANE REVERIE (Roselle Theodore Cross) . 

 THE BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER [Illustration] 

 A LIBEL ON THE BIRDS (L. P. Veneen) . 

 BERYL (Oliver Cummings Farrington) [Illustration] 

 SONG BIRDS OF THE SOUTHWEST (Alberta A. Field) . 

 THE AFRICAN LION (Dane Coolidge) [Illustration] . 

 TROUTING BAREFOOT (Belle A. Hitchcock) [Poem] . 

 THE ALASKAN MOOSE (Dane Coolidge) [Illustration] 

 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DUCK (Louise Jamison) . 

 A LOST FLOWER (Ella F. Mosby) .... 



THE POLAR BEAR (Dane Coolidge) [Illustration] . 



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