TTXVT. 



OCi'OUEk, 1^04 



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



No, 3 



F 



BIRDS 



AND 



NAYORE 



CONTENTS 



Page 



A LAMENT FOR THE SUMMER (Adelaide A. Procter) [Poem] . . 07 



THE MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD [Illustration] 08 



MY FARMER FRIENDS— Part I (Warren Higgins) .... 101 



THE CALIFORNIA LEMON (Louise Jamison) 104 



THE GREATER YELLOW-LEGS [Illustration] 107 



EARLY AUTUMN DAYS (George Leslie Hutohinson) [Poem] . . 108 



THE EVENING GROSBEAK [Illustration] 110 



CURIOUS CAVES (Belle Paxson Drury) 113 



THE COYOTE OR PRAIRIE WOLF (Seth Mindwell) [Illustration] . 119 



WATER DOGS (Harriet Williams Myers) ...... 120 



THE OLD STONE PILE (Cora A. Matson Dolson) [Poem] ... 121 



INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING BUTTERFLIES [Illustration] . 122 



THE TRUE STORY OF A BROWN THRUSH (Austin Arnold McCausland) 126 



NOON (Rae Mortimer Seymour) [Poem] . . . . . . 127 



A MIDNIGHT EPISODE WITH VANESSA ANTIOPA (Ellen Robertson 



Miller) 128 



THE KINGBIRD [Illustration] 131 



THE BLUEBIRD'S HAPPY HOME (Florence Bennett Scott) . . 133 



THE WOOD DUCK (Gerard Alan Abbott) [Illustration] ... 134 



THE GREAT BLUE HERON (J. Vallance Brown) [Poem] ... 137 



QUEEN NEPHILA WILDERI (Katharine Theodocia Cornish) . . 138 



THE AMERICAN OSPREY OR FISH HAWK [Illustration] , . 140 



OCTOBER (Eliza Woodworth) [Poem] 144 



EDITED by WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY 

 ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY 



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