Chapter I: Front Matter

Birds and all Nature

IN NATURAL COLORS

A MONTHLY SERIAL

FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY

A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF NATURE

TWO VOLUMES A YEAR

VOLUME VII.

JANUARY, 1900, TO MAY, 1900

EDITED BY C. C. MARBLE

CHICAGO
A. W. MUMFORD, PUBLISHER
203 Michigan Ave.
1900

COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY
A. W. MUMFORD

BIRDS AND ALL NATURE.

ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.

VOL. VII. JANUARY, 1900. NO. 1

CONTENTS.

Page
JANUARY. 1
OLD YEAR AND YOUNG YEAR. 1
THE VIRGINIA RAIL. 2
COTTON FABRICS. 5
THE WISE LITTLE BIRD. 7
THE GRASSHOPPER SPIDER. 8
THE BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 11
THE GRAY STUMP. 12
REMEMBERED SONGS. 13
THE YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. 14
THE YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. 17
WITH OPEN EYES. 17
BIRD NOTES. 19
SOUTHWARD BOUND. 20
THE BLACK SQUIRREL. 23
THE ROBIN'S MISTAKE. 24
THE DOVE. NOAH'S MESSENGER. 25
THE WEASEL. 26
BIRDS AND THE WEATHER. 29
STRANGE ILLUMINATIONS. 30
THE PINK HOUSE IN THE APPLE TREE. 31
THE QUINCE. 35
THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 36
LIQUID AIR. 37
COMMON MINERALS AND VALUABLE ORES. 38
THE DANGER FROM THE IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS. 41
THE AMERICAN BISON. 42
THE TURTLE DOVE. 44
THE SORROWFUL TREE. 44
MARKED WITH BLEEDING HEARTS. 44
THE LILY OF THE VALLEY. 47
MUSHROOMS ON BENCHES. 48

JANUARY.

Then came old January, wrapped well
In many weeds to keep the cold away;
Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell,
And blow his nayles to warm them if he may;
For they were numb'd with holding all the day
An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood,
And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray;
Upon a huge great earth-pot steane he stood,
From whose wide mouth there flowed forth the Romane flood.
--_Spenser._

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow; and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight; the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.
The sled and traveler stopp'd, the courier's feet
Delay'd, all friends shut out, the house-mates sit
Around the radiant fire-place, inclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
--_Emerson._

OLD YEAR AND YOUNG YEAR.