Vol. XVL 



DECEMBER, 1904 



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



No, 5 



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CONTENTS 



STANZAS (John Keats) [Poem] . . 



THE BLUE JAY (H. Walton Clark) [Illustration] 



A SEA OF MIST (Jaen Flower) [Poem] 



THE LARK (Nelly Hart Woodworth) [Poem] 



THE SORA RAIL (Frank Morley Woodruff) [Illustration] 



FALLACIES OF RULES FOR DETERMINING EDIBLE MUSHROOMS 



(Will Sayer Moflatt) 



THE NONPAREIL OR PAINTED BUNTING [Illustration] 



THE CHIMNEY SWALLOW (Jao Lowell) [Poem] 



FUN WITH THE BIRDS (Egbert T. Bush) . 



THE MALLARD DUCK [Illustration] » -" . 



MY LITTLE ROBIN RED (Elizabeth Roberts Burton) 



THE YELLOW-THROATED VIREO [Illustration] 



THE TRAP-DOOR SPIDER (Anson C. Allen) 



THE CHRISTMAS ROSE (Cora Mae Cratty) [Poem] 



THE SCREECH OWL (H. Walton Clark) [Illustration] 



SOME CURIOUS ANIMALS— Part II (Belle Paxson Drury) 



THE BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER [Illustration] 



THE INDIAN PIPE (C. H. Woodward) 



THE BALD EAGLE (Collins Thurber) [Illustration] 



THE SEA GULL (Mrs. Merrill E. Gates) (Poem] . 



INDEX 



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