Vol. XL 



MARCH, J902r 



The beautiful is as useful as the useful.— Viclor Hu^o. 



T73n 



BIRDS 



AND 



NATURE 



[Poemj 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 EASTER CAROL (Anna M. Pratt) [Poem] . . . .97 



SPRING (G. Cooper) [Poem] 97 



THE WINTER WREN [Ulustration] 98 



VOICES IN THE GARDEN (M. Alice Spradlin) 



THE LECONTE'S SPARROW [lUustration] . 



EASTER LILIES (Claudia May Ferrin) 



THE CALL OF THE KILLDEE (Mary Morrison) 



THE NORTHERN PHALAROPE [lUustration] . 



OUR LITTLE MARTYRS (George Klingle) [Poem] 



A CARGO OF STOWAWAYS (Alberta A. Field) 



THE HAIRY WOODPECKER [Dltistration] .... 



A VARICOLORED FROG (Andrew Tames Miller) 



WAS IT REASON OR INSTINCT? (L. P. Venen) . 



OPAL (Oliver Cummings Farrington) [Illustration] 



THE CROCUS (MadeUne S. Bridges) [Poem] .... 



MARCH [Poem] 



THE DOMESTIC SHEEP (John AinsUe) [Illustration] 



THE BEAUTY OF A STORM (Anne Wakely Jackson) . 



THE VIOLET (Charles S. Raddin) [Illustration] 



THE ROUND-LOBED LIVERWORT [Illustration] 



THE SPRING MIGRATION— THE WARBLERS (James Stephen 



Compton) ♦.....♦• 



A PET SQUIRREL (Loveday Almira Nelson) 

 THE ENGLISH WALNUT AND RELATED TREES (Albert 



Schneider) [Illustration] . • • 



AWAKENING (M. Townshcnd Maltby) [Poem] . >!!^vv 



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