VoLX. 



NOVEMBER, 190J. 



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



No, 4. 



BIRDS 



AND 



: 



NATURE 



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CONTENTS. 



[Poem) . . 



(Loveday Almira Nelsoi 



AN AUTUMN EVENING (Walter Thombury) 



THE PINE GROSBEAK [Illustration] 



THE ANNUAL NOVEMBER CONFERENCE 



THE FIELD SPARROW [Illustration] 



D1SHRAG VINES (Lee McCrae) 



A SNOW-FLAKE (Thomas Bailey Aldrlch) [Poem] . 



NEIGHBORING WITH NATURE (Sallie Margaret O'Mafley) 



THE CAROLINA WREN [Illustration] 



THANKSGIVING BY THE NINNESCAH (Mary McCrae Cutter) 



THE BLACK-POLL WARBLER [Illustration] 



TRAGEDY OF THE AIR (George Klingle) [Poem] 



OFF FOR THE SOUTHLAND (Claude May Ferrin) . 



TURQUOIS (Oliver Cummings Farrington) [Illustration] 



TO THE MEADOW LARK (J. Mayne Baltimore) [Poem] . 



THE OUTRAGED BIRD (Fannie Skelton Bissell) 



NICODEMUS (Belle Paxon Drury) 



A WEED PICTURE (Mary Noland) 



THE STRIPED HYENA (John Ainsiie) [Illustration] 



A BIRD INCIDENT (Mary Noland) 



GROUSE (Belle Paxon Drury) 



THE GIRAFFE (John Ainsiie) [Illustration] 



THE FLAG (Ella Van Fossen) [Poem] 



IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS HAND (Ella F. Mosby) 



SONG OF THE STORMY PETREL [Poem] 



THE SPIDER MONKEY (John Ainsiie) [Illustration] 



NOVEMBER (Walter Thombury) [Poem] 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 



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