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birdlings. He noticed me and flew away to a neighboring tree, 

 and chirped awhile, then flew over and fed the one outside the 

 nest and disappeared. But after a while he came again and fed 

 the other. He and his mate became quite tarne to me afterwards. 



Bartram Leiper, Blauvelt, N. Y. 



BIRD LISTS. 



During the year 1903, I have observed ninety-eight varieties of 

 birds. I tried hard to make the one hundred mark, but did not 

 quite succeed. I wound up my list on Christmas day with the 

 Cardinal. All were observed here in Lancaster County, except 

 four species, one near Philadelphia and three at Atlantic City 

 last Summer. Wishing your corner another year of success. 



Jacob Stehman, Rohrerstown, Penn. 



NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 

 I am composed of 19 letters. My 1-5-2 is to 13-3-7-6-14 people 

 to have 2-3-10-6-19 on birds. Feed them 1-8-19 food like 4-12-6- 

 3 or other 18-10-1-5-8. Alany 2-3-11 are the worst, 3-8-3-2-19 they 

 6-1-11 have and 3-4-3 long their 6-9-4-11 fields will not be 11-5- 

 6-3 because of 13-14-3-5-4 being cruel and 2-3-7-8 to the 13-3-1-6" 

 14-12-8-18 of the 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19. 



Clarence Dickinson, vSpringfield, Mich. 



WINTER NESTS, 



The falling of the leaves in autumn discloses many bird's 

 nests whose presence we little suspected, and offen a winter 

 walk is made far more interesting if we can name the little 

 builders. Of course the ground nests are hidden by dead leaves^ 

 and flattened by storms, and those built of very soft materiaU 

 like the pewee's, have been beaten out of shape or quite 

 destroyed, but there is one (No. 1,) we offen find very like the 

 robins, only without the mud, (sometimes mud is used — M. M.) 

 and offen rather more bulky in its foundations. It is placed in 

 bushes as well as in the low branches of trees on our lawns and 

 in the woods, too. 



Another familiär nest is the red-eyed vireo's firm little basket, 

 woven of strips of vegetable fibre— perhaps the long pieces that 

 peel so easily from the dead Joe-pye and milkweed stems. But 

 which vireo (No. 2) chooses a rather higher position than the 

 red-eye usually perfers, and covers the outside of her somewhat 



