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



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BIRDS 



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NATURE 



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CONTENTS 



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THE SCARLET TANAGER (Nelly Hart Woodworth) [Poem] . . 40 



THE SUMMER TANAGER [Illustration] 50 



SOME OP THE WOODS OF THE SOUTHLAND (Mary M. Stratner) . 53 



IN AUGUST (Frank Wolcott Hutt) [Poem] 56 



THE PRAIRIE HEN [Illustration] 59 



SUMMER (Eliza Woodworth) [Poem] 61 



THE WILSON'S SNIPH (Gerard Alan Abbott) [Illustration] ... 62 



A FEW BIRD HOMES (Rest H. Metcalf) . . . . . . 65 



THE NESTING OF A LEAF CUTTING BEE (Wilmatte Coekerell) . . 68 



THE KENTUCKY WARBLER [Illustration] 71 



SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER WITH THE CALIFORNIA WOODPECKER 



[Elnora Moody) .......... 72 



A WEED (Louise Drlscoll) [Poem] . ... . . . 73 



THE YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT [Illustration] 74 



THE GOOD OLD EARTH (Mrs. M. A. Maltland) [Poem] ... 77 



CURIOUS FRUITS (Belle Paxson Drury) 78 



THE SNOWY HERON (H. Walton Clark) [Illustration] .... 83 



BIRDS AND BOYS IN NORWAY (Mary Grant O'Sheridan) ... 84 

 THE WESTERN FOX SQUIRREL AND ITS RELATIVES (Seth Mindwell) 



[Illustration] 86 



THE MOTHER PRAIRIE CHICKEN (J. Mayne Baltimore) ... 90 



SOMETHING ABOUT BUTTERFLIES (Isabel M. Johnston) [Illustration] 92 



THE CHILD AND THE BUTTERFLY (Nixon Waterman) [Poem] . . 9fl 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY 



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