^ AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



With the Buntings were quiet Lapland longspurs, in winter dress of 

 white, tipped black feathers and pure white throats. They too, had 

 yellow bills and black feet, with a long hind claw. They seemed to 

 have a single thought to eat the greatest possible amount in the short- 

 •est possible time. 



They had still other companions, also walkers, wearing a black cres- 

 cent upon their light breasts, and upon their heads two horn-like tufts, 

 now you have guessed their names — perhaps you know the Horned 

 Larks in their pretty pinkish grey summer suits. 



More shy were the Red-poll Linnets, crimson tinged, swaying upon 

 snow-powdered sprays. All of these little visitors had aii added charm, 

 laecause they came to us w^hen all was so cold and bleak that nothing 

 .-seemed alive but the ever cheerful chickadees and nuthatches. 



Cannot some of you tell us something of these birds as you have 

 met them in their summer haunts? 



Cordially, your friend, 



Meg Merrythought, 



ROLL OF HONOR. 



Russell Adams. St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

 Huldah Chace Smith. Providence, R. L 



ANSWERS TO MARCH PUZZLES. 



Enigma — Golden Crowned Kinglet. 



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Titlark. Quails- 



Sandpipers. Blackbirds. 



Snipes. Swallows. 



Plovers. Meadow-larks. 



Grouse. Bobolinks. 



Pigeons. Oven-birds. 



A CUCKOO FAMILY. 



Seeing Cuckoos so many times in a lot above our house led me to 

 "believe they nested there. One day while I was near there I saw a 

 Cuckoo fly into a thicket of briers and shrubs. I made up my mind to 

 find out where it went to. After I had looked around for quite a while, 

 it flew up right in front of me. I looked at the place where it flew 

 from and spied its nest. It was not so neat a nest as many other birds 

 build. It consisted of quite a number of twigs laid in the center of 



