Vol. AVIL 



"Arp^iLi, lyvjo^ 



— rro;-^ 



The beautilul is a3 useful as the u^evjiL— i/ic^or nuj^o. 



BIRDS 



AND 



NATURE 



CONTENTS 



THE WAYSIDE SPRING (Thomas Buchanan Read) [Poem] - 



THE BOHEMIAN WAXWING [Illustration] 



THE ELM (Evelyn Singer) 



THE GRACKLES ( Jac Lowell) [Poem] 



THE CANADA JAY [Illustration] 



THE COMPASS OF THE PRAIRIE (Elma lona Locke) .... 



THE PIED-BILLED GREBE [Illustration] 



A PARROT THAT THINKS (Jennie Campbell Douglass) 



HEPATICAS (Charles F. Fudge) [Poem] 



THE TRAILING ARBUTUS, DELIGHT OP THE POETS (Edna P. Todd) 



THE SMITH'S LONGSPUR [Illustration] 



MR. STICKLEBACK (Louise Jamison) 



THE SPRING (Jean M. Hutchinson) [Poem] ..... 



THE PURPLE GALLINULE [Illustration] 



SOME JAPANESE PETS [Belle Paxson Drury) 



THE LONG-BILLED MARSH WREN (Collins Thurher) [Illustration] 



THE WOODPECKER FAMILY (Narcissa Lewis) 



THE CALIFORNIAN WOODPECKER [Illustration] .... 



MOUNTAIN AND VALLEY (Mrs. Merrill E. Gates) [Poem] - 



THE TIGER BEETLE (Alvln M. Hendeo) - 



THE BIRDS WILL LIVE (Willis Edwin Hurd) [Poem] - . . - 



THE AMERICAN RED CROSSBILL (Frank Morley Woodruff) [Illustration] 

 JUST RIGHT (Belle A. Hitchcock) [Poem] ..... 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR HIGLKTvcv^^ 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGR^ffijrfV _ ^^ 





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