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CONTENTS 



NIGHT (Joseph Blanco White) [Sonnet] ..-.-- 49 



THE RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER nUustration] - ... 60 



THE WILLOWS WAYS (Frank FarriiiKton) [Poem] - - - - 53 



BETH AND THE BIRDS (Grace T. Thompson) 54 



MY HALF-BROTHER AND I (Edgar S. Jones) 56 



THE BALDPATE DUCK [Illustration] ... - - 59 



THE WILD DUCKS OF MARYLAND (Hattie Reynolds) - - - - 60 



THE PURPLE FINCH (H. Walton Clark) [Illustration] - - - 62 



THE WORK OF FOLIAGE LEAVES (Mary Lee Van Hook) - - - 65 



ROOTS (Mary Lee Van Hook) 66 



THE MOCKINGBIRD (Edith Drury Lemington)- [A Legend in Rhyme] - 67 



THE LEAST BITTERN (Collins Thurber) [Illustration] ■ - - - 71 



HISTORIC STONES (Belle Paxson Drury) - - - - - 72 



THE SAW-WHET OWL [Illustration] 74 



OUR RESIDENT BIRDS— IN NORTHERN INDIANA (Warren T. Higgins) 77 



THE SNOWY PLOVER (Prank Morley Woodruff) [Illustration] - - 83 



A TRUE SQUIRREL STORY (Mrs. A. S. Hardy) - - - - 84 



A FINER SENSE (M.D. Tolman) [Poem] 85 



THE BLACK SWAN [Illustration] 86 



ADAPTATION IN BIRD ANATOMY (W. O. Headlee) . ... 89 



THE LESSER PRAIRIE HEN [Illustration] - 95 



WE SEE AS WE ARE (Jac Lowell) [Poem] 95 



AT CALL. OF MATE (George H. Maitland) [Poem] - - - 96 



EDITED BY WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 

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