. Birds and nature . e remark-able. Few authentic details of their methodscan be gathered, but it is certain thatartificial means were not used, selectionapparently being alone resorted to. Thebreed, which is now about a hundredyears old, is rapidly dying out, and mustsoon become extinct. Louise Jamison. THE SEPTEMBER RAIN-STORM. The windy weather brings the driving rain, Dripping heavily over sheltering evesOr battering gainst the roof and window-pane, Knocking like a host of threatening the drops are dancing on the walk While the rushing rivulets in hasteToss roaring torrents o
. Birds and nature . e remark-able. Few authentic details of their methodscan be gathered, but it is certain thatartificial means were not used, selectionapparently being alone resorted to. Thebreed, which is now about a hundredyears old, is rapidly dying out, and mustsoon become extinct. Louise Jamison. THE SEPTEMBER RAIN-STORM. The windy weather brings the driving rain, Dripping heavily over sheltering evesOr battering gainst the roof and window-pane, Knocking like a host of threatening the drops are dancing on the walk While the rushing rivulets in hasteToss roaring torrents oer the road, then fork— Speeding to the sleeping meadow last the chasing clouds are blown away— Robins race upon the new-swept lawn—While through the rift above a golden ray Sheds the glory of a oer the silent pond the swallows whirlWhile evening skies their sable shrouds unfurl. —Frederic Fortune. VoL XIV. OCTOBER, J903 The beautiful is as useful as the useful.—Victor Hugo. No, CONTENTS [Poem] NATURE (Jones Very) [Poem] .... THE TENNESSEE WARBLER [Illustration] AN AUTUMN WILD GOOSE FLIGHT (Willis Edwin Hurd) AN HOUR AFIELD (L. O. Mosher) PAINTED INDIGO-BIRD (Mrs. A. E. Goetting) [Poem] OCTOBER WILD FLOWERS (W. R. Murphy) THE BLACK BRANT [Illustration] THE TREE OR HOUSE SWALLOW (Anson C. Allen) THE WINDS CONQUEROR (Jac Lowell) [Poem] . THE WHITE-EYED TOWHEE [Illustration] SEEDS (Illyria Turner) [Poem] .... SOMETHING ABOUT PET SQUIRRELS (I. W. Sickels) THE ROBIN CONVENTION (Jessie Porter Whitaker) THE GREEN WOODPECKER [Illustration] . THE TRAGEDY OF A WAX WING (E. Harriott Palmer) THE OF THE KING RAIL (Gerard Alan Abbott) THE BIRD OF FOUR HUNDRED TONGUES (Belle Paxson Drury) AUTUMN FLOWERS ((Emily F. Bass) THE NESTING OF A CARPENTER BEE (Wilmatte Porter Cockerell)ORNAMENTAL STONES (Oliver Cummings Farrington) [Illustration]AN OCTOBER SNOW SQUALL (Mary M. Currier) [Poem] THE GRASSHOPPERS [Illustration] UNCLE JARVIS TALKS ABOUT GETTI
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