BIRDS AND ALL NATURE. ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. VOL. IV. NOVEMBER, 1898. No. 5 CONTENTS. Page NATURE'S ORCHESTRA. 161 A LITTLE BIRD. 162 THE TURKEY'S FAREWELL. 162 BIRDS. 163 BIRDS IN STORMS. 163 THE SLEEPING-PLACES OF BIRDS. 164 THE SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. 167 TAME BATS. 168 RED AND BLACK BATS. 171 THE OTTER. 172 THE AMERICAN OTTER. 175 THE SKYLARK. 176 NATURE STUDY AND NATURE'S RIGHT. 176 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER. 179 CAN ANIMALS COUNT? 180 BUTTERFLIES LOVE TO DRINK. 182 THE ENVIOUS WREN. 185 THE CANADIAN PORCUPINE. 186 THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. 189 THE CASPIAN TERN. 190 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONVERSATION LESSONS. 194 THE FLOWERING ALMOND. 193 SUMMARY. 200 NATURE'S ORCHESTRA. All nature is attuned to music. Man may seek the fields, the forests, the mountains, and the meadows, to escape from distracting noises of the city, but nowhere, not even in the depths of mountain forests, will he find absolute silence. And well for him that it is so, for should no noise, no vibration of the air greet his accustomed ear, so appalling would be the dead silence that he would flee from it as from the grave. Even the Bugs make music. They may not be much as vocalists but they take part in nature's symphony with the brook, the Bird, and the deep diapason of the forest monarch swaying and humming to the gusts of the wayward wind. It is true that the great majority of our species of insects are silent, and those which do make sounds, have not true voices, breathing as they do through holes arranged along each side of their body, and not through their mouths, they naturally possess no such arrangement for making noises connected with breathing as we find in the human larynx. The "buzzing Fly" and "droning Bee" are classed among nature's musicians, as well as the Cicadas, Grasshoppers, Crickets, Locusts, Katydids, and Beetles. Only the males are the musicians in the insect families--with the exception of the Mosquito, the lady being the musical member of that family--and the different kinds of Grasshoppers are provided with an elaborate musical apparatus by means of which they call their mates.