Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 2, February 1899 Illustrated by Color Photography

For many seasons a very handsome one strutted in front of our sitting-room window. Some of the family slipped over its neck a cord on which hung a silver dime, which shone on it...

While it proceeds slowly and awkwardly on the ground, its prehensile tail enables it to climb trees with some facility. This opossum readily entraps smaller mammals, reptiles, a...

Want of water will cause the common garden snail to go into a state of the most complete and curious lethargy. This is the snail of the genus Limax, not the larger one of the ge...

Substances which scatter themselves readily through the air are usually odorous, while those which do not are generally without smell. But many of these when transformed into va...

Page GINGER. 49 SAP ACTION. 54 EMERSON AND THE WOODPECKER STORY. 56 THE CRAB-EATING OPOSSUM. 59 WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN. 60 THE GEOGRAPHIC TURTLE. 62 NOSES. 65 THE WHITE IBIS. 71...

The wood is dark-colored, becoming almost black when properly seasoned, and was formerly extensively used for cabinet work, inside finish, gun stocks, and many ornamental purpos...