The beautiful is as useful as the ^xQei^xi.—yic^or//uJ^o, 



BIRDS 



AND 



CONTENTS 



SPRING COMES, JOY COMES (Frank Farrinffton) [Poem] 



THE PROTHONOTARY WARBLER (Frank Morley Woodruff) 



A RAINY DAY IN SPRING (Jaen M. Hutchinson) 



TO THE WOOD THRUSH (James S. Compton) [Poem] 



THE MARSH HAWK (Collins Thurber) [Illustration] 



FLORA'S FIRST OFFERING (Charles F. Fudge) . 



THE SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER [Illustration] 



THE MAPLE (Evelyn Singer) 



THE NIGHTHAWK [Illustration] 



MOTHS (Belle Paxson Drury) 



THE ORCHARD ORIOLE [Illustration] 



THE ORIOLE'S NEST (W. H. Sheak) [Poem] 



MY SQUIRREL JTEIGHBORS (Alice Crittenden Derby) 



MORNING [George Gee) [Poem] 



THE INDIGO BUNTING OR INDIGO-BIRD [Illustration] 



THE FOREST AT MIDNIGHT (L. a Mosher) 



THE CHICKADEE [Illustration] 



A GLIMPSE OF THE FERNS (Rest H. Metcalf) 



THE WCKDD THRUSH [Illustration] . 



FOR THY HEART'S HEALING (Mrs. Cora A. Matson Dolson) 



INDEX 



Edited bV WILLIAM KERR HIQLEY 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY 



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