BIRDS Arid NATURE

BIRDS arid NATURE FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY A GUIDE IN THE STUDY OF NATURE VOLUME III. EDITED BY WILLIAM KERR HIGLEY CHICAGO A. W. MUMFORD AND COMPANY. PUBLISHERS 378 Wabash Avenue 1906 l ** C BOB "0 9 -*C "Ol> .1 * ' e*< P* <i*J <f c\- .* i* 2 ?3 e '' " ' & .1 * S A *19 .. *a* i c> * C.P * COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY A. W. MUMFORD V 7 y' INDEX. VOLUME EL Aeronaut, A Farmyard. Isabella Howe Fiske 180 181 Anemone. ( Poem) C. H. Woodward Arbutus, The Story of the. Julia Root Stephenson 120 Banquet in the Snow, The. Hattie Washburn 222 Birch, The White. (Poem) Frederick E. Beebe ., 104 Bird Anatomy, Adaptation in. W. O. Headlee 89 Bird Song, Origin of. (Poem) Edith Drury Lenington .- 125 Birds, Beth and the. Grace T. Thompson 54 Bird's-eye- view, A. Albert W. Gaines 102 Birds, Names of. Belle Paxson Drury 12 Birds, Our Resident, in Northern Indiana. Warren T. Higgins 77 Bittern, The Least. (Illustration) Collins Thurber 71 Bluebird, A Story of a. Bertie M. Phillips 231 Bluebird Jottings. Frank M. Boner 207 221 Bluebird, The. ( Poem) Edith Drury Lenington Collins Thurber Bob-white or Quail, The. ( Illustration) 23 Boy Blue, Little. Louise Jamison 220 Buds. Mary Lee Van Hook 115 Cardinal, A Faithful Kentucky. Fannie A. Carothers 164 Caterpillar, The Old Church and the. Ellen Robertson-Miller 168 Captive, The. (Poem) John Jordan Douglass 144 Chameleon, The. George Bancroft Griffith 169 Cheer, Good. (Poem) Alice M. Dowd - 20 Citizen, A Naturalized, of California. Alice M. Dowd 43 Cockatoo, The Rose-breasted. ( Illustration) 38 Coot, The American. (Illustration) H. Walton Clark 131 Crab Trees Blow, When. (Poem) L. O. Mosher 193 Crow, Jim. Fannie A. Carothers 32 Crows, The Rally of the. Harriet S. Osmond 140 Crystal, Pictures in. (Poem) George Bancroft Griffith 113 December. (Poem) Christopher P. Cranch 62 Dickcissel, The. (Illustration) Collins Thurber 146 Duck, The Baldpate. (Illustration) 59 Duck, The Black. (Illustration) 107 Duck, The Pintail. ( Illustration) 201 Ducks of Maryland, The Wild. Hattie Reynolds 60 Finch, The Purple. (Illustration) H. Walton Clark 62 Flies, House. Burton B. Reineman 236 Flowers. Mary Lee Van Hook 162 Flowers, Blooming of the. (Poem) Charles F. Fudge 215 Forest, A Child of the. Ethel Allen Murphy 149 Forest Vandalism. George Klingle . 7 Gnatcatcher, The Blue-gray. (Illustration) Collins Thurber no God's Green Velvet. (Poem) L. F. Harman 209 Guests, Our Cuban. Rest H. Metcalf 187 Guests', Unexpected. Susie E. Kennedy 176 Guests, Uninvited. Emelie A. Salisbury 152 Grouse, The Dusky. (Illustration) 191 Half-brother, My, and I. Edgar S. Jones 56 Hawk, The American Sparrow. (Illustration) 98 Helper, Our Little Gray. Margaret M. Withrow 25 Hen, The Lesser Prairie. (Illustration). 95 Hen's Nest, Mrs. Hopsee Shows Me A Prairie. Millie Noel Long. 226 Heron, The Great Blue. (Illustration) Collins Thurber 213 Hills, Among the. (Poem) George H. Maitland 236 Index 237 Ladies' Slipper, A. (Poem) Ella F. Mosby 26 Leaves, Green. ( Poem) Charles F. Fudge 116 Leaves, The Work of Foliage. Mary Lee Van Hook 65 of. Mate, At Call ( Poem) George H. Maitland 96 Meadows, Evening in the Salt. (Poem) Eliza Woodworth 17 Mockingbird, The. (Poem) Edith Drury Lenington 67 Narcissus, A Modern. Mildred Van Deman 231 237 Nesting Habits of Some Birds, The. (Illustration) 158, 216 Night. (Sonnet) Joseph Blanco White 49 Nightingale, The (Illustration) 179 Oriole, The. (Poem) Charles E. Jenney 157 Orchard, In the. Amanda M. E. Booth 226 Ostrich, Life of a Juvenile. E. H. Rydall 126 H. Clark Oven-bird, The. ( Illustration) Walton 155 Oven-bird's Love-song, The. Norman O. Foerster 186 Owl, The Saw-whet. ( Illustration) 74 Owl, The Short-eared. (Illustration) Frank Morley Woodruff 35 Pansy-faces. (Poem) Mrs. Merrill E. Gates . 139 Paper-maker, the, Vespa. Louise Jamison 29 Parrot, The Double Yellow-headed. (Illustration) 225 Partridge, The Mountain. (Illustration ) 47 Partridge, The Scaled. (Illustration) Frank Morley Woodruff 143 Petrel, The Stormy. (Poem) Bryan Waller Procter 97 Petrel, The Wilson's. (.Illustration) .' 119 Pheasant, The Silver. (Illustration) 134 Pigeon, The Crowned. (Illustration) 26 Pigeon, The Passenger. (Illustration) 2 Pines, The. (Poem) Frank Farrington 37 Pintail, The. ( Illustration) 201 Plover, The Snowy. - (Illustration) Frank Morley Woodruff 83 Plants that Do Not Flower. Mary Lee Van Hook 163 Ella F. Poppies, California. ( Poem ) Mosby 128 Quail, The Bob-white, or. (Illustration) Collins Thurber 23 Rabbits, The Jack. Hattie Washburn 156 Rain-time Prayer, A. (Poem) Jac Lowell 192 Reindeer Drive, Alex's. Martha R. Fitch 5 Rex. M. R. Hodder ." 197 Rhea, The South American. (Illustration) 194 Root's. Mary Lee Van Hook 66 Robin, The. (Poem) Edith Drury Lenington 175 Sandpiper, The Bartramian. ( Illustration) 170 Sea, The. (Poem) Bryan Waller Procter 145 Seeds. Belle Paxson Drury 202 Seeds, A Few Secrets of. Mary Lee Van Hook 36 Sense, A Finer. (Poem) M. D. Tolman 85 Selection. (Poem) Christopher P. Crauch 62 Singer, A Little-Known. James Stephen Compton 185 Sky, The Medallion of the. Lee McCrae 144 Snow, Foot Prints in the. Warren Higgins 18 Snow, The. (Poem) Walter Thornbury i Sparrow, The Fox. (Illustration) u Spring Messenger, A. (Poem) J. Frank Richman 121 Spring, The Threshold of. Lucina Haynes Lombard 132 Spring, The Coming of. (Poem) Charles F. Fudge 173 Spoonbill, The Roseate. ( Illustration) Frank Morley Woodruff 182 Squirrel Story, A True. Mrs.. A. S. Hardy 84 Stems. Mary Lee Van Hook 1 14 Stilt, The Black-necked. (Illustration) Frank Morley Woodruff 235 Stones, Historic. Belle Paxson Drury 72 Swan, The Black. (Illustration) 86 Things Come to Him Who Waits, All. Karrie King 41 Tree Lore. Emily F. Bass 137 Trees, Curious. Belle Paxson Drury 108 Tree, My Dog- wood. ( Poem) Kate Matson Post 188 Trees, Some Common. Belle Paxson Drury 174 Vespa, the Paper-maker. Louise Jamison 29 Vireo, The Red-eyed. (Illustration) 14 Warbler, The Bay-breasted. ( Illustration) 228 Warbler, The Magnolia. (Illustration) 204 Weeds and Their Ways. Mary Lee Van Hook 214 We See as We are. (Poem) Jac Lowell 95 Willow's Ways, The. (Poem) Frank Farrington 53 Woodpecker, The. (Poem) Belle Paxson Drury 47 Woodpecker, The Ivory-billed. (Illustration) 122 Woodpecker, The Red-bellied. (Illustration) 50 Woodpecker, The American Three-toed. (Illustration) 167 238 BIRDS ftND NftTURE, ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. THE SNOW In the dark the snow is sifting, in a white shower swiftly drifting, the seed the scatters his Like sower from rough and horny hand ; See it heaving into waves, swelling into shapeless graves, Rippling into curves and frettings, like the ocean's silver sand. How it hangs upon the eaves, how it dots upon the leaves, Crystal round the ruby berries and the green and glossy leaf, Clinging to the netted boughs, massing on ajlopmg house, Filling all the mind and feelings with a TOnk, unreasoning grief. Heavy swathes upon the brier, rising every moment higher, Sloping in a massy buttress up against the old church wall, Hollowed into roadside caves by the night-wind's gnawing waves, Turning every roof to silver hut and palace, farm and hall. See the wild bird oh the thorn, waiting for the peep of dawn, Guarding yonder ruby berry, like a magic talisman, Fluttered frightened at the snow rustling through the break below, As the hare flew, scared and startled, from the coming steps of man. As I look into the night, over hill and plain of white, Comes a watchful angel's voice, clear yet softly through the dark, As the wind grows louder, higher, spreading like a prairie fire, And the elm shakes like the mainmast of a tempest-tossing bark. "Soon the south wind shall blow soft, breathing over glade and croft, Soon the blue will and the air with music slowly widen, ring ; And from out this snowy tomb, like a soul unto its doom, Shall the Spring leap up in gladness, and to God his praises sing. WALTER THORNBURY, "Snow Crystals." THE PASSENGER PIGEON ( Ectopistes migratoriusJ] There are few, if any, birds of which long this appearance would continue. It it is more difficult and painful to write was then about half past one o'clock. He than the Passenger or Wild Pigeon, for says: "I sat for more than an hour, but it forcibly calls to mind the inhuman instead of a diminution of this prodigious side of man's nature. This beautiful procession, it seemed rather to increase bird, which is now very rare and per both in number and rapidity; and, anx haps nearly extinct, was only a few years ious to reach Frankfort before night, I ago not only common but very abundant. rose and went on. About four o'clock in In the year 1892 Captain Bendire fully the afternoon I crossed the Kentucky riv appreciated the critical situation as re er, at the town of Frankfort, at which gards the Passenger Pigeon. He then time the living torrent above seemed said: "In fact, the extermination of the as numerous and as extensive as ever. Passenger Pigeon has progressed so Long after this I observed them in large rapidly during the past twenty years bodies, that continued to pass for six or that it looks now as if their total exter eight minutes, and these again were fol mination might be accomplished within lowed by other detached bodies, all mov the present century. The only thing ing in the same southeast direction, till which retards their complete extinc after six in the evening." Mr. Wilson tion is that it no longer pays to net these estimated that this flight of Pigeons birds, they being too scarce for this now, must have included many more than at least in the more .settled portions of two thousand two hundred millions of the country, and also, perhaps, that from individuals.

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