BIRDS AND NATURE. | ||
| ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. | ||
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| 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
Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps,
And the broad arching portals of the grove
Welcome thy entering. Look! the massy trunks
Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,
Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven,
Is studded with its trembling water-drops,
That glimmer with an amethystine light.
But round the parent