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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



4. What is the largest bird's egg in the world? 



5. What is the smallest bird's in the world? 



ENIGMA. 



My 3-2-4 is a small animal. 



My 1-2-5-4 is not the whole. 



My 3-6-7-8-9 is an elevation. 



My 1-6-4 is a large hole in the ground. 



My whole is the name of a game bird. 



Charles C. Lewis, 

 Philadelphia, Penn. 



GLEANINGS. 

 THE FIRST WOOD THRUSHES. 



Was it a richer robin? The cherry's snow 



Waved signal: wandering with enchanted feet 



In columbine bells and violets dewy sweet 



I walked into the springs of long ago. 



No robin: for the dim ravine below 



Echoed with voices in a golden trance. 



Welled with the pure deliberate jubilance 



Of flutes that none but Wood Thrushes could blow. 



So, they shall rise up at the voice of a bird, 



The buried years; the unmemorial years; 



All hope, all love, all memory long deferred 



Plooded my heart and eyes with happy tears. 



The golden-throated thrushes in the May! 



Spring, the sweet spring, and my love far away! 





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