bl. IX. 



APRIL, \90i. 



The beautiful is as useful as the useinL — yicfor/Iu^o. 



No. 4. 



BIRDS 



AND 



NATURE 



CONTENTS. 



APRIL (Helen Hunt Jackson) [Sonnet]. 



APRIL (Bernard Malcolm Ramsay) [Poem] 



THE CURASSOW [Ulustrated] . ' . 



SOME NOTABLE NESTS (Elizabeth Reed BrowneU) 



THE BLACKBIRD^S SONG (Walter Thornbury) [Poem] 



A GOLDEN EAGLE (Charles Elmer Jenney) . 



THE HARLEQUIN DUCK [lUustration] . 



AN ORCHARD BIRD-WAY (Alberta A. Field) 



THE CANADA GROUSE (Seth Mindwell) [lUustration] 



DO PLANTS HAVE INSTINCT? (Rowland Watts) . 



THE DOVEKIE [lUustration] .... 



THE SONG SPARROW'S APPEAL (George Bancroft Griffith) 



THE WITCH IN THE CREAM (Elizabeth Roberts Burton) 



THE BEAVER [lUustration] 



PAU-PUK-KEEWIS AND THE BEAVERS (Henry Wadsworth 



LongfeUow) [Poem] . . • , . 



SNAILS OF THE OCEAN (Frank CoUins Baker) [Ulustration] 

 THE LEMON (Charles S. Raddin) [lUustration] 

 TWO WRENS (Nelly Hart Woodworth) 

 WHEN SPRING COMES (George Gee) [Poem] 

 CUBEBS (Albert Schneider) [Illustration] . 

 A TREE-TOP TOWN (Austin Arnold McCausland) [Poem] 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY, 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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