183 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOOY. 



ENIGMA NO. 1. 



1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15 which are sometimes called (6-12- 

 7-5), (12-13-14-15) generally live in some (14-4-8-1-3) -(13-7-12-11-15). 

 They have (14-7-9-1) (10-4-8-15.) Their nest is usually in a (5-4-14- 

 14) (5-8-3-10), and near some 13-4-5-10-2. They have 5-13-7, some- 

 times (5-6-2-10-3). (10-1-1-15) which are found early in the 15-10-4-15- 

 7-9 often before the 15-9-7-13 has left us. 



A. P. WoüDWARD, Danielson, Conn. 



ENIGMA, NO. 2. 



My 7-9-10-11 most people like. 



My 10-5-3-4 I have had enough of, this season. 



My 7-9-6 everyone wears. 



My 8-9-6-10 are an enemy to man. 



My 4-9-6-12-13 we cannot live without. 



My 1-8-3-4-5 coat, I think is very pretty. 



My whole is a pretty bird of 13 letters. 



Naomi E. Voris, Crawfordsville, Ind. 



WHO ARE WE? 



1. I am used in a foundry, but live in a marsh. 



2. A thief s occupation, but a cheerful songster. 



3. I am a large country. but in November children like to eat me. 



4. I am used to build fences, but prefer a marsh to live in. 



5. I am a quiet country, but I can make a loud noise. 



6. Hunters like to do this; I make no nest. 



7. Girls bear my name; I often build near houses. 



(These names of birds have more than one meaning, which is ex- 

 pressed in each clause.) 



C. F. DiCKiNSON, Springport, Mich. 



QUERIES. 



What bird of prey builds a large, strong nest of sticks, bound 

 together with vines, lined with closely woven hair and mosses, and 

 drives the young from the nest as soon as they are able to fly, then 

 tears it to bits, that the little ones cannot come back? 



