BIRDS AND NATURE. ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Vol. X. NOVEMBER, 1901. No. 4 CONTENTS. AN AUTUMN EVENING. 145 THE PINE GROSBEAK. (_Pinicola enucleator._) 146 THE ANNUAL NOVEMBER CONFERENCE. 149 THE FIELD SPARROW. (_Spizella pusilla._) 155 DISHRAG VINES. 156 A SNOW-FLAKE. 156 NEIGHBORING WITH NATURE. 157 Gaunt shadows stretch along the hill 157 THE CAROLINA WREN. (_Thryothorus ludovicianus._) 158 THANKSGIVING BY THE NINNESCAH. 161 Wildly round our woodland quarters 164 THE BLACK-POLL WARBLER. (_Dendroica striata._) 167 TRAGEDY OF THE AIR. 168 OFF FOR THE SOUTHLAND. 169 TURQUOIS. 170 TO THE MEADOW LARK. 174 THE OUTRAGED BIRD. 175 NICODEMUS. 175 A WEED PICTURE. 176 The air is full of hints of grief 176 THE STRIPED HYENA. (_Hyaena striata._) 179 A BIRD INCIDENT. 181 GROUSE. 181 THE GIRAFFE. (_Camelopardalis giraffa._) 182 THE FLAG. 186 IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS HAND. (From an Ornithologist’s Year Book.) 187 SONG OF THE STORMY PETREL. 188 THE SPIDER MONKEY. (_Ateles hypoxanthus._) 191 NOVEMBER. 192 AN AUTUMN EVENING. In scattered plumes the floating clouds Went drifting down the west, Like barks that in their haven soon Would moor and be at rest. The Day sank down, a monarch tired, Upon Night’s sable breast. The wind was all but hushed to sleep, Yet now and then it stirred A great tree’s top, and whispering, Awoke a slumbering bird, Who half aroused, but only chirped A song of just a word. And in the west the rosy light Spread out a thousand arms, Each with a torch, whose crimson flame Stretched o’er the peaceful farms, And o’er the yellow corn, that lay Unconscious of all harms.