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MARCH, J90.J. 



The beautiful is aa useful as the MSQt\iX.--Vicior Hugv. 



No. 5. 



BIRDS 



AND 



NATURE 



CONTENTS. 



SPRING (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [Poem] . 

 ABOUT PARROTS (Lawrence IrweU) [lUustration] 

 POLLY (Susan Brown Robbins) 



THE AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN (Seth Mindwell) 

 THE SANDPIPER (George Bancroft Griffith) [Poem] 

 A BIT OF BIRD GOSSIP (S. E. McKee) 

 THE MARBLED MURRELET [UlostraUon] 

 BEFORE THE STORM (Mary Morrison) [Poem] 

 BOY-CHICKADEE (Elizabeth Nanemacher) 

 THE STORY BIRD (Belle P. Drury) . 

 THE BEAR [Ultjstration] .... 

 BIRD INCIDENTS (Berton Mercer) 



SEA-MEWS IN WINTER TIME (Jean Ingelow) [Poem] . 

 SNAILS OF POND, RIVER AND BROOK .(Frank Collins Baker) 

 [Illtistration] ....... 



THE ORANGE [lUustration] 



THE MUSICAL SWAN (Julette A. Owen) 



PEPPER (Albert Schneider) [lUostration] 



MARCH (Walter Thombury) [Poem] . y^xkX 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGL^Y.^ . _^ , 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTodAAll^Y. x',\j^^^^>^ 



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