BIRDS AND ALL NATURE.
ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
Vol. IV.
No. 6.
DECEMBER, 1898.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| VOICES. | 201 |
| AFRICAN LION. | 207 |
| A SYMBOL. | 208 |
| THE CACTUS. | 211 |
| MYTHS AND THE MISTLETOE. | 212 |
| THE FLYING-SQUIRREL. | 215 |
| HUMMING-BIRDS. | 216 |
| CHRISTMAS TREES. | 220 |
| A WINTER'S WALK. | 221 |
| THE SILK-WORM. | 222 |
| ANIMALS' RIGHTS. | 225 |
| THE CALIFORNIA VULTURE. | 226 |
| A GAMELESS COUNTRY. | 229 |
| SNOWFLAKES. | 229 |
| THE AMERICAN GOLDEN-EYE. | 230 |
| GOLDEN ROD. | 230 |
| THE AMERICAN SKUNK. | 233 |
| BIRDS IN "THE ILIAD." | 234 |
| SUMMARY. | 238 |
| INDEX. | i |
VOICES.
W. E. WATT.
ALL animals with lungs have somesort of contrivance in the windpipethat is able to set the airin vibration as it is expelled orinhaled. Some have not only thismeans of making vocal sound, buthave also power to vary the qualityand intensity of it. Out of this secondability come speech and song.
Ants converse with their antennæ,having no lungs nor windpipe. Beesdo the same. Those of her attendantswho first perceive the absence of thequeen from the hive apply their antennæto the feele
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