BIRDS AND NATURE.

ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
Vol. XI.FEBRUARY, 1902.No. 2.

CONTENTS.

[FEBRUARY.] 49 [THE BLUE-HEADED VIREO. (Vireo solitarius.)] 50 [BOOK AND MRS. OYSTER] 53 [THE CALIFORNIAN THRASHER. (Harporhynchus redivivus.)] 59 [WINTER’S SECRET.] 60 [A QUEER PARTNERSHIP.] 61 [THE BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD. (Selasphorus platycercus.)] 62 [A BIRD THAT HUNG HIMSELF.] 65 [WINTER MEMORIES.] 66 [SOME OF OUR WINTER BIRDS. IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.] 67 [THE BROAD-WINGED HAWK. (Buteo latissimus.)] 71 [THE BIRD’S COMPLAINT.] 72 [CALIFORNIA POPPIES.] 73 [QUARTZ.] 74 [MIDWINTER.] 79 [A CATASTROPHE IN HIGH LIFE.] 80 [THE DOMESTIC CAT.] 83 [“CUBBY.”] 85 [SOAPWORT OR BOUNCING BET. (Saponaria officinalis.)] 86 [TURTLE-HEAD OR SNAKE-HEAD. (Chelone glabra.)] 86 [THE POCKET BIRD.] 89 [THE BIRDS IN THEIR WINTER HOME. II. (In the Fields.)] 90 [MUSIC-LOVING FELINES.] 92 [FIRE-FLIES.] 92 [SUGAR-CANE. (Saccharum officinarum Lin.)] 95 [DEATH OF THE FOREST MONARCH.] 96

FEBRUARY.

But Winter has yet brighter scenes—he boasts

Splendors beyond what gorgeous summer knows;

Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods

All flushed with many hues. Come when the rains

Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,

While the slant sun of February pours