| Show Out of Doors in the West Sketches of Natural History in the Rocky Mountain Plateau Edited by J. H. Professor of Nature Study In the University of Utah YELLOW LILIES OF THE An Appreciated Three two one woodpecker and one member of the crow family these well mounted in an excellent state of were this week the gift of Harry Aldous of Salt Lake to the department nature study at the Such specimens are invaluable for class room and the donation is immensely appreciated by the department to which Aldous turned over these highly prized of which the red-tailed hawk is THE RED-TAILED The western red-tailed hawk the and it is killed because of that It rarely touches its principal food being ground frogs and All of except the are pests to and the destruction of ground squirrels alone by this hawk should entitle it to It is found all over the but is nowhere very preferring the tall timber along the banks of streams or circling about mountain passes and open foot but avoiding dense It returns to its breeding grounds early in THE RED TAILED HAWK varies greatly in and measures nearly two feet in the female being the In our specimen the under parts are with reddish on the darker I ones on The M tail is reddish with W near he The I rest upper parts are dark sightly yel- lowish and A This fine bird of one of Uhe commonly as preferring the same localities year after year if not driven It will use for a number of years the same stick-built located in trees and tall 30 to 50 feet from the and occasionally on The practice of shooting this hawk is due to since this large and fine fellow is one of our six beneficial The other useful hawks are the marsh the the the ferruginous rough- legged and the sparrow All these birds have a reputation for doing while at the same time they are rendering the most valuable they have suffered severely and most unjustly because of this Only within the last twenty years has it been proved beyond doubt that these maligned and persecuted species are friends and YELLOW LILIES OF THE Certain western lilies of early spring may be found now all their They gleam from amid the hillside shrubbery like flashes of gold from out of their foliage of satiny-green velvet and are set in rustic frames' of formed by the oak The flowers' rise above a carpet of browns made of the oak leaves that cover the fertile black in which alone these delicate plants can I The Yellow Lily CONSIDER THE These in The lilies of And the amber Whole brilliance untold Lights the mountain fresh and With whom love's spirit The yellow western lilies are said to be the nearest like those on the hills of which the Savior gave this the how they they toil neither do and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of Thompson in his paraphrase of St. Matthew I bids us I the rising 1 t Observe the various m race They neither toil nor careless Yet see how warm they b how bright they What regal vestments can them What king so queen so TWO GLORIOUS Just now the hill bringing down numerous of two or these beans yellow One of the strange name of the other is i much more a The bears its absurd- m. in the East and hi a true lily and no tb ond is a close relative of the tr resembling it in ew thing but The is that in the true snowdrop It ily the portion of the flown is united j or which is tl fore said to be the lily family our snowdrop belongs' and stamens an r from he and arise from SNOWDROP AND In the yellow petals form a rather i bell in the dog-tooth tithe petals each forming 1 bower with its coiled or as this one is son the botanical name the als of pure I grand or showy is the name rf reddish-yellow J called the snowdrop- means modest and refe bowed head of the It has still the Utah yf in allusion to of young bulbs that corm at the the three-fold for next year's preparation The Rice Root This name was given to the yellow-bell-flower many years ago by Menan's Both of these pretty flowers may be called yellow since that is what they and happen to be the best kind of flowers to begin being beautiful of form and simple of easily and The third grade in the public schools and beginners generally should study these regal and OTHER WESTERN Other western lilies are the sego lily flowers leaves parallel-veined and springing from bulbs at their These with the poison sego the wild flower de luce the Solomon's seal and and the wild onion would be the best spring studies for the beginners and for the third grades in the These lilies will be described In our the stem bears near the base a pair of opposite The flowers are an inch bright the petals tapering to a and In the stems are from three to eight inches and one to the flowers are yellow or and tinged with One other lily deserves mention the the bulb of which is for food by the a rather large and usually lily on a stout stem a foot or two It is rather common in many parts of the Rocky mountain THE LILT careless eye can find no No beauty in the scaly Nor see within the dark embrace What latent loveliness it holds Yet in that bulb those sapless The lily wraps her silver Till vernal suns and vernal gales Shall once more her fragrant MARY |
