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was seen and shot by a hunter, who stroked his feathers and admired 

 the rich colors, and wished that his sister at home was not so particular 

 about wearing birds on her hat. 



ENIGMA. 



You'll find my 1st in swear words, 



My 2nd is in pray. 



My 3rd's not found in milk curds 



But always found in whey. 



My fourth and final letter 



Is in the word contend. 



There's no bird you know better 



Than this pugnacious friend. 



QUERIES. 



1. What bird sews leaves together to make a nest ? 



2. What birds build and live in a tenement house of many apart- 



ments ? 



3. What bird always uses snake skin to line her nest ? 



4. What three birds cover the outside of their nests with lichens ? 



5. What ones build a globe of coarse grasses with an entrance 



in the side ? 



6. Which nest in burrows made by themselves ? 



7. What two tunnel in banks ? 



8. Which one lines her nest with down plucked from her own 



breast ? 



9. Which one walls up his wife and feeds her through a small 



opening during incubation ? 

 10. Name three which build no nest at all ? 



GLEANINGS. 



THE CHICKADEE. 



"There is no sorrow in thy song. 

 No winter in thy year." 



"As I stood looking, I heard a smart 'Tche-day-day-day' close to 

 my ear, and looking up, saw four or five chickadees which had 

 come to scrape acquaintance with me, hopping amid the alders 

 within three or four feet of me. I had heard them farther oflE at 

 first, and they had followed me along the hedge. They day-day'd 

 and lisped their faint notes alternately, and then, as if to make me 

 think they had some other errand than to peer at me, they pecked 

 the dead twigs, the little, topheavy, black-crowned, volatile fellows. 



(Thorea.) 



