150 AMERIOAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



ROLL OF HONOR. 



Leroy B. Noble, Little River, Conn. 

 Carl Ph. Dowell, Port Richmond, N. Y. 

 J. Howard Binns, Adena, Ohio. 

 Russell Adams, St, Johnsburg, Vt; 

 Huldah Chace Smith, Providence, R. L 



ANSWERS TO MAY PUZZLES. 



Pi. 



1. Penguin. 2. Eiderduck. 3. Albatross. 4. Pelican. 5. Petrel. 

 6. Gulls. 7. Flamingoes. 8. Ducks. 



Queries. 



1. The Petrel. 



2. Northern Shrike. 



3. Wood-duck. 



4. The largest egg in the world is that of the acpyornis, an extinct 



bird. The egg measures thirteen and one-half inches in length. 



5. The smallest egg is that of a South American hummingbird and is 



only about one half inch long. 



EXTRACTS FROM OUR MAIL BAG. 



Some friends which I met last winter. 



I do wish you could sit here by the window and watch my pets. In- 

 boxes outside of the wnndow sill I have nuts, bread, cracker and potato, 

 and upon a rose bush close by I have tied bones and suet. Put your 

 face down close to the glass and wait — one, two, three — seven 

 Chickadees in the bunch, five, six tree sparrows. Here they come, 

 two nuthatches; by and by two downy Woodpeckers. But wait, a row 

 in camp! Two tree sparrows come, one in each box and look up in 

 your face: two or three more come and want to eat, and the other two 

 are standing, mouth wide open and wings outspread, screaming at the 

 top of their voices. There! Here at last comes Bobby, who's Bobby? 

 Well, one of the tree sparrows met wath an accident, and in some way 

 lost all of his tail feathers so we called him Bobby. He was very cold. 



One little Blackcap looks in at the window and calls chip! chip! 

 chick! I go to the window and put my fingers out towards the little 

 iellow^ and he jumps to the glass and pecks it as hard as he can to get 



