48 AMERIOAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



Queries. 



1. ^Vhy do Woodpeckers ereej) head upward around the tree trunks and 

 branches ? 



2. Why is a Woodpecker's bill so long and strong? 



3. What color is always found on the heads of each of our five common 

 Woodpeckers? (The male birds.) 



4. Upon what does the Woodpecker feed? 



5. Where is the nest of the W^oodpecker placed? 



6. What serves the W^oodpecker as a love-song? 



7. To what family does the Woodpecker belong? 



Numerical Enigma. 



1-2-3-10 a tree. 



1-11-6-4- to remove the skin of a fruit. 



5-6-11-8-1 to hold tightly. 



9-10-11-12 part of a bird. 



9-10-4-6 a beverage. 



3-10-11-6 not far. 



5-6-11-8-8 is on John's lawn. 



9-4-11-3 grown in John's garden. 



8-2-3 iniquity. 



8-2-3-5 what our birds do. 



6-2-3-5 a circle. ■ 



9-11-12-10 a form of cooking. 



5-2-9-10 to sneer. - ' 



4-11-6 part of a birds head. 



9-4-11-6 to carry. I 



8-7-9 to cry. 



1-2-5 an animal. 



1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12 a bird. 



Ere long, amid the cold and powdery snow, as it were a friut of the season, 

 will come twittering a flock of delicate crimson-tinged birds, lesser redpolls, 

 to sport and feed on the buds just ripe for them on the sunny side of a wood, 

 shaking down the powdery snow there in their cheerful feeding, as if it were 

 high midsummer to them. 



Thoreau. 



