Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals
Page THE NUTMEG. 145 AN ABANDONED HOME. 150 THE AMERICAN BARN OWL. 155 A SPRINGTIME. 156 THE KANGAROO. 157 INVITATION TO THE REDBREAST. 158 FEATHERS. 161 VISION AND SCENT OF VULTURES. 163 THE HOARY BAT. 167 THE COMING OF SPRING. 168 THE NASHVILLE WARBLER. 169 CHIEF SIMON POKAG...
The subject of this brief sketch died, January --, 1899, at an advanced age. He was a full-blood Indian, and a hereditary chief of the Pottowattomies. As author of "The Red Man'...
5. Part 5One of the smallest of the foxes is the kit fox (_Vulpes velox_), sometimes called the swift fox and also the burrowing fox, getting the latter name for the ability and rapidity...
2. Part 2"Oh! I wish I had never been born," wailed Mrs. B., as the gentle wind stirred the leaves and swayed the branch upon which she was perched. "Already I begin to experience the tr...
1. Part 1Page THE NUTMEG. 145 AN ABANDONED HOME. 150 THE AMERICAN BARN OWL. 155 A SPRINGTIME. 156 THE KANGAROO. 157 INVITATION TO THE REDBREAST. 158 FEATHERS. 161 VISION AND SCENT OF VUL...
3. Part 3The material of a feather consists of cells that push each other out to their destination. They change their forms as they travel along, and their colors and degrees of hardness...
6. Part 6For a number of years a crested flycatcher has built his nest in a hole in an apple tree in my yard, about twenty feet from a house constructed for the habitation of the wrens....