VoL XV. 



APRIL, J904 CCZ^'IZ 



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



No, 4 



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NATURE 



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CONTENTS 



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THE TIME OP BUDS. (Eliza Wordworth.) [Sonnet] . . . , 



THF GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW [Illustration] .... 

 TWENTY COMMON WARBLERS. PARTI. (Norman O. Foerster) . 

 A BAND OF MERRY LITTLE WANDERERS (Addie L. Booker) . 

 THE LESSER YELLOW-LEGS [Illustration] . . . . , 



THE WONDERFUL ECHOES OF GO WLLAND ISLAND (Frank P. McMullen) 



THE SONG OF NATURE (Jac Lowell) [Poem] 



THE SWAINSON'S WARBLER [Illustration] 



THE BREAKING OF THE GROUND (Cora A. Matson Dolson) [Poem] . 

 A DAY IN THE LONDON ZOO (Dorothy Lord Maltby) .... 



NATURE'S TOKENS (M. D. Tolman) [Poem] 



THE CASSOWARIES [Illustration] 



THE TRUE STORY OF AN INDIGO (Harriet L. Grove) 



SPRING'S APPROACH (Rose Glass) [Poem] 



THE HABITS OF THE RED-EYED VIREO (Gerard Alan Abbott) [Illustration] 



BIRDS' NESTS (Belle Paxson Drury) 



THE ROBIN (Carolyn F. Hailey) [Poem] ...... 



DRAGON-FLIES (Margaret Wentworth Leighton) [Illustration] 



FOUR YOUNG HAWKS (William F. Mowry) 



THE CIRCLE OF THE SEASONS (N. Allen Stockton) [Poem] 



THE LIME [Illustration] 



LITTLE PEOPLE OF POOLS PART IL (Helen Mansfield) . ♦ 



A WILY WEASEL (John C. McCraeken) 



AN INTERESTING GROUP OF FUNGI (Will Sayer Moffatt) [Illustration] 

 NATURE'S LOVER (Lulu Whedon Mitchell) [Poem] .... 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY 



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