BIRDS AND NATURE. | ||
| ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. | ||
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| Vol. X. | OCTOBER, 1901. | No. 3 |
CONTENTS.
- SONNET—OCTOBER. 97
- October comes, a woodman old 97
- THE YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. (Empidonax flaviventris.) 98
- THE REIGN OF THE WHIPPOORWILLS. 101
- RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. (Regulus calendula.) 102
- THE CORN SONG. 104
- THE OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER. (Contopus borealis.) 107
- THE COMING OF MISS OCTOBER MONTH. 108
- THE TREE SPARROW. (Spizella monticola.) 110
- THE SPARROWS’ BEDTIME. 113
- THE SPARROW FAMILY. 114
- MR. AND MRS. SPARROW’S BLUNDER. 115
- A WINDOW-PANE REVERIE. 116
- THE BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. (Dendroica virens.) 119
- A LIBEL ON THE BIRDS. 120
- BERYL. 122
- SONG BIRDS OF THE SOUTHWEST. 127
- THE AFRICAN LION. (Felis leo.) 131
- TROUTING BAREFOOT. 133
- THE ALASKAN MOOSE. (Alces gigas.) 134
- There’s a wonderful weaver 137
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DUCK. FOUNDED UPON FACT. 138
- A LOST FLOWER. 140
- THE POLAR BEAR. (Ursus maritimus.) 143
- O, beautiful world of gold! 144
SONNET—OCTOBER.
The month of carnival of all the year,
When Nature lets the wild earth go its way,
And spend whole seasons on a single day.
The spring-time holds her white and purple dear;
October, lavish, flaunts them far and near;
The summer charily her reds doth lay
Like jewels on her costliest array;
October, scornful, burns them on a bier.
The winter hoards his pearls of frost in sign
Of kingdom: whiter pearls than winter knew,
Or Empress wore, in Egypt’s ancient line,
October, feasting ’neath her dome of blue,
Drinks at a single draught, slow filtered through
Sunshiny air, as in a tingling wine!
—Helen Hunt Jackson.