BIRDS AND ALL NATURE. ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. VOL. VI. DECEMBER, 1899. NO. 5. CONTENTS. Page THE TRAMPS OF BIRDLAND. 195 THE NARCISSUS. 199 FASHION'S CLAMOR. 200 COCA. 203 OUR NATIVE WOODS. 205 BIRD WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD. 206 THE RED-TAILED HAWK. 209 A TRANSPLANTING. 210 TWO BIRD LOVERS. 212 WINTER TIME. 212 THE MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 215 BOB-O-LINK. 215 A STUDY OF THE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH. 216 THE PILEATED WOODPECKER. 217 THE LYRE-BIRD. 218 ROBERT AND PEEPSY--THE TWINS. 221 THE COWBIRD. 224 THE LEGEND OF SAINT SILVERUS. 228 BIRDS GATHERED HIS ALMOND CROP. 228 STORIES FROM BIRDLAND. 229 DECEMBER. 229 THE WILD CAT. 230 CHRISTMAS ONCE IS CHRISTMAS STILL. 233 THE EUROPEAN SQUIRREL. 234 "IN ORDERS GRAY." 237 INDEX VOL. VI. INDEX VOLS. I., II., III., IV., V., VI. THE TRAMPS OF BIRDLAND. ELANORA KINSLEY MARBLE. The birds had met in council that morning, and from the great chattering and chirping I judged some very serious question was up before the board. "Something must be done," Mr. Red-eyed Vireo was saying, as I sauntered down to the orchard and seated myself beneath an apple tree, "we have stood the imposition long enough. Every year we meet and draw up resolutions, with many 'whereases' and 'wherefores,' and 'aforesaids'--resolutions with nothing resolute about them. To-day, I say, something must be done." Mr. Wood-thrush, Mr. Towhee, Mr. Chipping Sparrow, Mr. Yellow-breasted Chat, Mr. Song Sparrow, and several Mr. Flycatchers, beside a number of other small birds, nodded their heads in unequivocal assent. "We have enemies enough," continued Mr. Vireo, "how many only Mother Nature knows. Even in the darkness of night we are not safe from the owls, skunks, snakes, and other robbers, and in the day-time, besides our feathered foes, we have the ruthless 'collector,' and the ever-present bad boy. Enemies without are bad enough, but to have in our very midst a--a--" Mr. Vireo paused, presumably choking with indignation, but really because he had quite forgotten what he had prepared to say.