232 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



ROLL OF HONOR. 



1, Leroy B. Noble, Little River, Conn. 



2. J. Howard Binns, Adena, Ohio. 



4, Huldah Chace Smith, Providence, R. L 



MAILBAG EXTRACTS. 

 SOME TAME HUMMERS. 



Last Summer I went into the mountains. I lived In a log-cabin hoteL 

 Ovar an unused door a board stuck out forming a kind of wind break 

 or shield. Behind this board there was a hole in a rotten log about a 

 foot and a half long. 



In this hole a family of humming birds had built their nest. 



There were three little ones. They were so tame that I picked them 

 up and played with them; the old birds did not seem to care. The 

 family were of the broad-taiied variety. 



Late in the season the little ones learned to fly, and they flew away. 



Charles B. Murray, Denver, Col. 



A HUMMING BIRD AT SCHOOL. 



One morning recently, when some of the pupils got to school before 

 the teacher, we watched for her to come. When she came we ran out 

 to the road to meet her and walked in with her. When we got in, my 

 playmate went to set down her lunch basket, and I said, — "O Dot, look 

 here! Here is a little humming bird." It was so tired it could not fly. 

 We took it and held it awhile, and then put it in a tree, but it did not 

 fly. We held it again; and pretty soon it flew up into the top of the 

 tree. 



