The beautiful is as useful as the usqI^jI. — Victor IIu^o. 



BIRDS 



AND 





CONTENTS 



TO A BIRD (Jones Very) [Poem] ^*198 



THE ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD [Illustration] - - . . . 194 



WINTER FEASTS (Lucie A. Peabody) - 197 



THE BLACK GROUSE [Illustration] 201 



BIRD SONG (Belle Paxson Drury) ^ *i/* 



THE ENGLISH SPARROW [Illustration] 204 



THE FEATHERED AUTOCRAT (Andrew James Miller) - - - 207 

 THE HOLLY (Evelyn Singer) --.-'... 



THE AMERICAN FLAMINGO (Collins Thurber) [Illustration] - *- 113 

 ••GO TO THE ANT. THOU SLUGGARD," BUT NOT TO THE SQUIRREIj 



(Lee McCrae) ----... - - 215 



THE CHARMED SNOWSTORM (Willis Edwin Hurd) [Poem]' - - 21B 



THE RING-NECKED PHEASANT [Illustration] - . V . . 2I6 



WE WERE SEVEN (Mrs. ill. A. Maitland) [Poem] - - - . 219 



THE WALNUT (Evelyn Singer) - . . ■" 



SING! BOBOLINK, SING I (Dr. A. C. Ferguson) [PoemI - - - 222 



THE BRONZED GRACKLE (H. Walton Clark) [Illustration] - - 225" 



THE PIGEON FAMILY (Amy Taylor) - - - . . . 226 



THE BLACKBIRDS' BREAKFAST (Mary Noland) [Poem] ■ . - 227 

 THE VERDIN [Illustration] . ' . . ... 



A WINTER RAMBLE (Charles F. Fudge) 231 



^g§ BLACK-THRO^ATEDGRE [Poem] 



THE GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Frank Morley WoodrufT) [Illustration] • 235 

 THE FURIES' DAY (Bessie Andrews Dana) [Poem] - • - 



INDEX 



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