I. DC. 



FEBRUARY, mu 



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



No. 2. 



BIRDS 



AND 



NATURE 



CONTENTS. 



FEBRUARY (Helen Hunt Jackson) [Sonnet] . 



FROST-WORK (Thomas Bailey Aldrfch) [Poem] . 



THE HAWKS (Seth MindweU) [niustration] 



INTERESTING STONE HOUSES (Rest H. Metcalf) 



THE ALASKAN SPARROW (NeUy Hart Woodworth) 



THE DOWITCHER [lUustration] ..... 



SOME THINGS WE MIGHT LEARN FROM THE LOWER ANIMALS 



(Rowland Watts) 

 THE GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE [Illustration] .... 

 THE EAGLE (Alfred Tennyson) [Poem] .... 



THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF BIRDS (Lynda Jones) 

 THE HOODED WARBLER [Illustration] .... 



MRS. JANE'S EXPERIMENT (Mary Noland) . . • • 



A STROLL IN THE FROST KING'S REALM (Addie L. Booker) 

 SNAILS OF THE FOREST AND FIELD (Frank CoUlns Baker) [Illustration] 

 THE GILA MONSTER (Amelia Walson) [lUustration] . 

 BIRD NOTES (Mary Hefferan) [Poem] .... 

 THE POMEGRANATE [Illustration] 

 FISHERS AND FISH-CULTURE AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS 



(T. Louis Comparctti) 

 CINNAMON (Albert Schneider) [lUustration] 

 AT DUSK (Albert Schneider) [Poem] . . . • 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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