Birds and All Nature IN NATURAL COLORS A MONTHLY SERIAL FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY A GUIDE IN THE STUDY OF NATURE TWO VOLUMES A YEAR VOLUME VI. JUNE, 1899, TO DECEMBER, 1899 EDITED BY C. C. MARBLE CHICAGO A. W. MUMFORD, PUBLISHER 203 Michigan Ave. 1900 COPYRIGHT 1899 BY NATURE STUDY PUBLISHING CO. CHICAGO BIRDS AND ALL NATURE. ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. VOL. VI. JUNE, 1899. NO. 1 CONTENTS Page MY NEIGHBOR IN THE APPLE TREE. 1 A DAY IN JUNE. 8 WESTERN YELLOW-THROAT. 11 CHARLEY AND THE ANGLEWORM. 12 THE MYRTLE WARBLER. 14 TAFFY AND TRICKSEY. 17 A SUGGESTION TO OOLOGISTS. 20 THE BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER. 23 INDIRECTION. 23 OUT-DOOR SCIENCE. 24 THE GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. 26 PET ANIMALS AS CAUSES OF DISEASE. 26 A FLY-CATCHING PLANT. 29 TREES AND ELOQUENCE. 30 BATS IN BURMESE CAVES. 32 A METAL BIRD'S NEST. 32 THE MOURNING WARBLER. 35 THE RAVEN AND THE DOVE. 36 THE MAYFLOWERS. 37 THE CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER. 38 NATURE STUDY--HOW A NATURALIST IS TRAINED. 41 JOHN'S HAWK. 42 CURIOUS TREES. 44 THE BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER. 47 THE EMPEROR'S BIRD'S NEST. 48 MY NEIGHBOR IN THE APPLE TREE. NELLY HART WOODWORTH. Tropical portions of the American continent, rich in an endless variety and beauty of bird-life, have shared with New England but a single species of Trochilidæ, _Trochilus colubris_, the ruby-throated humming bird. This "glittering fragment of a rainbow" adds a decorative feature to our gardens, its nest so protected through diminutive size and perfect adaptation to the surroundings that it rarely comes under one's observation. It is commonly asserted that the male is an arrant shirk, that he leaves the entire labor of building and furnishing the house as well as the heavy duties of housekeeping to the faithful mother, being in the fullest sense a _silent_ partner either from choice or otherwise, a mere apology for a husband and head of a family.