Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 3 [August 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography

The nests are bulky and constructed with dead leaves, often partly decayed, which are obtained from the muddy banks and with the mud still adhering to them. These, with twigs an...

It was one afternoon, about ten days after I discovered the nest, that the lessons in flying began. The father and mother would fly from the nest to some twig a few feet from th...

Malachite is a green opaque mineral whose color indicates a salt of copper. It is a carbonate of copper containing water, the percentages being in the typical mineral, cupric ox...

AUTUMN WOODS. 97 THE PHILIPPINE SUN-BIRD. (_Cinnyris jugularis_.) 98 Fly, white butterflies, out to sea 98 THE ANIMALS’ FAIR. PART II—THE FAIR. 101 A DAY. 104 THE GREAT GRAY OWL...

Of all the gastropods none excel the curious Xenophora in point of oddity. The shell is in general form like that of the top shell, but as it grows it attaches to itself small s...