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BIRDS 



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NATURE 



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CONTENTS 



THE SEA (Bryan Waller Procter) [Poem] • • 



THE DICKCISSEL (Collins Thurber) [ Illustration! 

 A CHILD OF THE FOREST (Ethel Allen Murphy) 

 UNINVITED GUESTS (Emelie A. Salisbury) 

 THE OVEN-BIRD (H. Walton Clark) [Illustration] 

 THE JACK RABBITS (Battle Washburn) 

 THE ORIOLE (Charles E. Jenney) [Poem] • 



THE NESTING HABITS OF SOME BIRDS - , ,r rr i x 



FLOWERS AND PLANTS THAT DO NOT FLOWER (Mary Lee Van Hook) 

 A FAITHFUL KENTUCKY CARDINAL (Fannie A. Carothers) 

 THE AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER [Illustration] - 



THE OLD CHURCH AND THE CATERPILLAR (Ellen Robertson Miller) 

 "T?HE CHAMELEON (George Bancroft Griffith) - 



THE BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER [Illustration] - 

 THE COMING OF SPRING (Charles F. Fudge) [Poem] 

 SOME COMMON TREES (Belle Paxson Drury) 

 THE ROBIN (Edith Drury Lemington) [Poem] 

 UNEXPECTED GUESTS (Susie E. Kennedy) 

 THE NIGHTINGALE [Illustration] - ' ' 



A FARMYARD AERONAUT (Isabella Howe Fiske) „,,, ^.^„,,^„^ 



THE ROSEATE SPOONBILL (Frank Morley Woodruff) [Illustration J 

 THE LITTLE-KNOWN SINGER (James Stephen Compton) 

 THE OVEN-BIRD'S LOVE-SONG (Norman O. Foerster) - 

 OUR CUBAN GUESTS (Rest H. Metcalf) ^^ ' 2 



MY DOGWOOD TREE (Kate Matson Post) [Poem] 



THE DUSKY GROUSE [Illustration] 



A RAIN TIME PRAYER ( Jac Lowell) • 



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Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 

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