AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 205 



Answers to july puzzles. 



Pi. Birds which build arched or covered nests on the ground. 



1. Meadow Lark. 



2. Ovenbird. 



3. Grasshopper Sparrow (sometimes). 



4. Bobolink. 



5. Maryland Yellow-throat. 



6. Quail. 



NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 



Redstart. 



WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THESE TWO WARBLERS? 



Upon a fair May day as a quartette of bird lovers rested by a brook 

 which rippled softly down the hillside among: rocks and trees, a sharp 

 "tut, tut" warned them that they were traspassers. The notes of alarm 

 came from a pair of olive birds no larger than an English Sparrows. 

 They walked along the opposite side of the brook, then flew from stone 

 to stone ill its midst, and darted about the heads of the intruders, scold- 

 ing heartily meanwhile, and constantly swinging their tail from side to 

 to side like a yo.i ig lady very conscious of her first trained gown. 



The under p.ircs of the bird were of a soft creamy white, streaked on 

 the sides with black and a long white line passed over the eye. They 

 resembled Thrushes, but they were not Thrushes. What were they? 



Perhaps there was a le-it in o le of the mossy caves in the overhang- 

 ing banks, but it was s j cuniiin^^ly hid lea that not one of the quartette 

 could find it. 



While they were still watching these birds, another bird flew up from 

 a bathing place in the brook, and alighting upon a branch by the side 

 of a great boulder, began preening its feathers. This, at first glance 

 seemed like a small Red-eyed Vireo, but a more careful survey showed 

 a black line through the eye, and that the lines which marked the eye- 

 brow of the Vireo were lacking. Its back was a clear olive green, its 

 under parts a yellowish white, the top and sides of its head were slate 

 color. As he flew away a bit of white showed in his tail feathers. 



He resembled a Vireo, but he was not a Vireo. What was he? 



QUERIES. 



1. What four birds are called Thrushes, which are really Warblers? 



2. What bird is often wrongly called a Thrush, which belongs to 

 the same family as the Catbird and Wren? 



