BIRDS AND NATURE. | ||
| ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. | ||
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| Vol. IX. | FEBRUARY, 1901. | No. 2 |
CONTENTS.
[FEBRUARY.] 49 [FROST-WORK.] 49 [THE HAWKS.] 50 [INTERESTING STONE HOUSES.] 55 [THE ALASKAN SPARROW.] 56 [THE DOWITCHER. (Macrorhamphus griseus.)] 59 [All the beautiful stars of the sky] 59 [SOME THINGS WE MIGHT LEARN FROM THE LOWER ANIMALS.] 60 [THE GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE. (Quiscalus macrourus.)] 62 [THE EAGLE.] 62 [THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF BIRDS.] 65 [THE HOODED WARBLER (Sylvania mitrata.)] 71 [MRS. JANE’S EXPERIMENT.] 72 [A STROLL IN THE FROST KING’S REALM.] 73 [SNAILS OF THE FOREST AND FIELD.] 74 [THE GILA MONSTER. (Heloderma suspectum.)] 80 [BIRD NOTES.] 85 [THE POMEGRANATE. (Punica granatum.)] 86 [FISHES AND FISH-CULTURE AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS.] 89 [CINNAMON. (Cinnamomum cassia blume.)] 95 [AT DUSK.] 96
FEBRUARY.
Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
And reigns the winter’s pregnant silence still;
No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
These are the days when ancients held a rite
Of expiation for the old year’s ill,