St. Nicholas/Volume 40/Number 4/Nature and Science

In the winter the foot of the grouse is much like a snow-shoe, the toes acquiring a comb-like fringe on the sides, while in the summer the toes are bare and slender.

Juncos (in foreground and in flight at the right) and tree-sparrows that make many footprints in the snow.

Chapters (not listed in original)

1. The significance of birds’ feet
2. Some little Clay Jugs
3. Tiny insects most beautiful
4. The impatient touch-me-not
5. A beautiful February constellation
6. Saturn and the Pleiades
7. Because we want to know