AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



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Address communications for this department to 



Meg Merrythought, 60x772, Waterbury, Ct, 



My Dear Young Friends: 



Our feathered friends are coming thick and fast; how glad we all are 

 to see them again. Many of them make us but a little social call on 

 their way north where they make their summer homes, but they are 

 now wearing their best clothes, and singing their sweetest songs. 



On looking over my note books, I find there were about fifty birds 

 which greeted me in my May wanderings last year. No wonder that 

 the birding fever is easily caught during this fair month. 



Charles Rogers of New York City was the first to successfully 

 straighten out the March "pi". He reports the arrival of the Crow 

 Blackbird on March first, and the presence of Robins, Fox Sparrows, 

 and a Hermit Thrush, all winter. The latter must have found an attrac- 

 tive spot and kind friends to have lingered thus behind their mates. 



We print an account of a pair of Clapper Rails given by one of our 

 young folks in R. I. 



Have you put up the box-homes for the Wrens and Bluebirds? 



Goodbye till we meet in the month of roses, and decide which bird 

 we like the best. Your friend, 



Meg Merrythought. 



The birds represented in the puzzle pictures in the April Ornithology 

 were: 1, Black and White Creeper; 2, Ovenbird; 3, Flicker; 4, King- 

 fisher; 5, Chickadee; 6, Catbird; 7, Crane; 8, Chimney Swift; 9, 

 Grosbeak ; 10, Nuthatch. 



NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 



I am composed of 11 letters. Alas, you will find my 11-7-9-5 in South 

 Africa and South America at the present time, always accompanied by 



