BIRDS AND NATURE. ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Vol. X. DECEMBER, 1901. No. 5 CONTENTS. SNOW-FLAKES. 193 O wonderful world of white! 193 THE WHITE-EYED VIREO. (_Vireo noveboracensis._) 194 TO A WHITE-EYED VIREO. 197 PLEA OF THE YOUNG EVERGREENS. 198 THE RIVOLI HUMMINGBIRD. (_Eugenes fulgens._) 201 THE SEA-GULL. 202 THE BIRD OF CONSOLATION. 203 THE WORM-EATING WARBLER. (_Helmitherus vermivorus._) 204 THE HUMMINGBIRD. 204 NEVA’S BUTTERFLY. 207 THE INDIGNANT TURKEY. A TRUE STORY. 210 THE CHIPPING SPARROW. (_Spizella socialis._) 213 CHRISTMAS IN BUNNYVILLE. 214 TOPAZ. 216 THE BIRTH OF THE HUMMINGBIRD. 220 THE ROSE TANAGER. (_Pyranga aestiva._) 221 THE ERMINE. 222 THE RHESUS MONKEY. (_Macacus rhesus._) 225 AN ANIMAL TORPEDO. 226 THE CAMEL. 228 THE HILL SUMMIT. 232 THE ZEBRA. 235 ASPIRATION. 236 INDEX. Volume X—June, 1901, to December, 1901, Inclusive. 237 SNOW-FLAKES. Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow. Even as our cloudy fancies take Suddenly shape in some divine expression, Even as the troubled heart doth make In the white countenance confession, The troubled sky reveals The grief it feels. This is the poem of the air, Slowly in silent syllables recorded; This is the secret of despair, Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded, Now whispered and revealed To wood and field. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.