A Visit to Audubon s Home. 



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BIRDS IN DISGUISE. 



THE following is the list of birds 

 veiled in the anagram in our June 

 number. The first five correct solutions 

 received in our office reached us in the fol- 

 lowing order: 



Mrs. E. A. Foster, New York city; Jer- 

 ome Trombley, Petersburgh, Mich.; Wal- 

 ter B. Savery, Salem, Mass.; Miss Margaret 

 F. Boynton, Lockport, N. Y.; Russell W. 

 Taft, Williston, Vt. Several other correct 

 solutions were received, with two or three in 

 which "rock crane " was incorrectly given 

 for corn crake. 



Granite den soup. i. 



Go mind brick. 2. 



T my wise finch. 3. 



Blow direly. 4. 

 Retort riven liang red 5 . 



6. Do keep crow. 6. 



7. Drink big. 7. 



8. Our sea eggs. 8. 



9. Boil knob. 9. 

 10. Rush the mirth. 10. 



Pinnated Grouse. 



Mockingbird. 



Chimney Swift. 



Yellowbird. 



Great Northern Diver. 



Woodpecker. 



Kingbird. 



Sage Grouse. 



Bobolink. 



Hermit Thrush. 



11. R. dug moonvine. 



12. Nib's word. 



13. Her rain pie. 



14. U. go defer surf. 



15. Magpi rant. 



16. A Turk age. 



17. Sling in sheep. 

 iS. Grow, parsons I 

 ig. Make a world. 



20. Dryer birch. 



21. Pawling. 



22. Try! Gap! Roar! 



23. Whirlpool Pi W. 



24. Alan's children. 



25. Sabre! Rend! Ob='- R. 



26. Who bit B. E. ? 



27. Pain's perd. 



28. Girls tan. 



29. Grin him dumb ! 



30. Long brace O sea ! 



31. Reduce kid. 



32. Heed larks. 



33. Bask, Radical Negro! 



34. Near crock. 



35. Shirt Co. 



36. Lub Bride. 



Mourning Dove. 

 Snowbird. 

 Prairie Hen. 

 Ruffed Grouse. 

 Ptarmigan. 

 Great Auk. 

 English Snipe. 

 Song Sparrow. 

 Meadow Lark. 

 Cherrybird. 

 Lapwing. 

 Gray Parrot. 

 Whippoorwill. 

 Sandhill Grange. 

 Robin redbreast. 

 Bob White. 

 Sandpiper. 

 Starling. 

 Hummingbird. 

 Barnacle Goose. 

 Eider Duck. 

 Sheldrake. 

 Cardinal Cirosbeak. 

 Corncrake. 

 Ostrich. 

 Bluebird. 



A VISIT TO AUDUBON'S HOME. 



IN her entertaining narrative of the life 

 of Audubon, Mrs. St. John mentions 

 an estate or "plantation" on the Perkiomen 

 as having been occupied by Audubon while 

 he was a resident of Pennsylvania. 



A short time since it was the writer's 

 fortune to visit this historic spot, and it 

 may interest admirers of the great natural- 

 ist to know something of his old home as 

 it now appears. It is to-day one of the 

 finest among the many splendid farms in a 

 region noted for fertility and beauty. 



The valley of the Perkiomen Creek is 

 surpassingly attractive in itself. The left 

 bank of the stream, from its confluence 

 with the Schuylkill as far as the eye will 

 reach, is flanked with a thickly wooded 

 ridge, rising in places abruptly from the 

 water's edge, with many evergreens show- 

 ing here and there among the more numer- 

 ous deciduous trees. 



Along the opposite side are lovely 

 meadows stretching away far and wide, 

 over which flocks of sheep and cattle roam 

 and feed contentedly and luxuriously, or 

 rest in the generous shade of trees that, 

 from their great size and age, must have 

 graced the landscape in Audubon's time, 

 the whole scene presenting a charming 

 picture of rural peace and plenty. 



Local history tells us that here, about 

 the beginning of the present century, Au- 

 dubon laid the foundation of his great 

 work, here also on April 8, 180S, he mar- 

 ried Lucy Bakewell, and here too his eldest 

 son was born. 



Preparatory to his removal to Kentucky 

 the naturalist disposed of the farm to 

 Joseph Williams, of Whitemarsh, from 

 whom it passed into the possession of M. 

 R. Ambler, Esq., the present owner. — W. 

 D. Zimtnerman in Forest and Stream. 



