BIRDS.

ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.

Vol. III.

No. 3.

MARCH, 1898.

Page
[SOME BIRD LOVERS.]81
[BIRD DAY.]82
[MARCH.]82
[THE BIRD'S ANSWER.]83
[ WHERE MISSOURI BIRDS SPEND CHRISTMAS.]84
[THE BLACK DUCK.]87
[THE STORMY PETREL.]88
[WILSON'S PETREL.]91
[THE STORMY PETREL.]92
[THE BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER.]95
[THE AMERICAN COOT.]96
[THE AMERICAN COOT.]99
[ INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BIRDS.]100
[ THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER.]101
[ THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER.]102
[THE SPARROW HAWK.]105
[ THE AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK.]106
[ HINTS ON THE STUDY OF WINTER BIRDS.]109
[THE SILVER PHEASANT.]110
[EIDER DUCK FARMS]113
[THE SCALED PARTRIDGE.]114
[THE MOUND BIRD.]114
[THE NEW TENANTS.]117
[SUMMARY.]120

SOME BIRD LOVERS.

THE happiness that is added to human lives by love for the lower creatures is beyond telling. Ernest von Vogelweide, the great German lyric poet of the middle ages, so loved the birds that he left a large bequest to the monks of Wurtzburg on condition that they should feed the birds every day on the tomb-stone over his grave.