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ANSWERS TO SEPTEMBER PUZZLES. 



Charade 1. Nightingale. Charade 2. Maryland Yellow-throat. 



Birds resembling English Sparrows in coloring. Sparrows, Chipping, 

 Field, Fox, Grasshopper, Ipswich, Savanna, Seaside, Sharp-tailed, 

 Song, Swamp, Tree, Vesper, White-crowned, White-throated, the 

 Goldfinch in winter plumage, also the females of the Bobolink, the 

 Red-winged Blackbird, the Red-poll, Purple Finch, Indigo Bunting, 

 and the Grosbeaks, 



ROLL OF HONOR.— Irene Williams, Platteville, Wis.; N. 

 Heath, Grand Forks, N. D.; Stafford Francis, Exeter, N. H. 



Pearl 



PREACHER OR YELLOW JOURNALIST, WHICH? 



Have you ever been to a corn roast? If you have not, you have 

 missed a deal of fun. First, you find a grassy slope where the sun- 

 shine sifts down between the quivering leaves of tall trees upon the 

 gay flowers and feathery ferns which nod by the brook, for of course 

 there must be a brook, to furnish music as it ripples along over the 



REDEYED VIREO. 



(Preacher Bird) 



Photo from Life. 



