152 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



ROLL OF HONOR. 



Huldah Chace Smith, Providence, R. I. 

 James Butler, Detroit, ^lich. 



ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN SEPTEMBER MAGAZINE. 



What birds are these? 

 1- Red-eyed Vireos. 

 2. The Cow-bird lays its eggs in the nests of smaller birds. 



NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 



No. 1. Blackbilled Cuckoo. 

 No. 2. Canadian Warbler. 



MAILBAG EXTRACTS. 



The bird who came for the rafia which I placed outside of my win- 

 dow on the roof, took a piece of white, and ran along till he spied a bit 

 of colored rafia, then he dropped the white piece and siezed the colored 

 piece and fiew away. Can birds distinguish colors and do they like 

 bright colors better than others? 



H. B. A. 



When it is very warm the Linnets come around about half past six 

 or seven in the morning, and sit on a tree just outside of my bedroom 

 window and wake me by their shrill little song. 



There is one of the most peculiar birds I have seen anywhere, here 

 in our fruk orchard; it is a Butcher bird. Now, a Butcher-bird is not 

 such a peculiar bird, but this one is also a mocking bird. I have never 

 seen nor heard of any like it. 



It mocks all the birds around here and also birds that never come 

 here. It does not give the whole song of the bird, but just part of it. 



It has a nest with four small birds in it. In the morning it will go 

 for food and then fly to the top of the windmill, and sit there and sing. 

 There are some other Butcher birds around here, but they do not mock 

 like this one. I have found lizards, frogs and bugs that it has caught 

 and hooked on to sharp points of the tree that it nests in. It seems to 

 be very happy. I have been very close to this bird and I know that it 

 must be the Butcher bird. 



One day when I was out riding I saw a very sad sight. A Meadow- 

 lark had killed itself. It must have been sitting on a barbed wire fence^ 



