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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



Address communications for this department to 



Meg Merrythought, 156 Waterville Street, 

 Waterbury, Ct. 



Dear Young Folks: 



We wish you each a Happy New Year as we meet in our corner the 

 first time in 1904. We welcome the new comers, to whom we would 

 like to say a word about the Bird Chats. 



Our aim is to help forward a good fellowship among our young bird 

 lovers, and also between them and the out-of-door world, to that end 

 we have a kind of wireless telegraph from Connecticut to Oregon, and 

 welcome messages from all along the line. In the Roll of Honor are 

 printed the names of those who send correct answers to the puzzles of 

 two months previous; the little journey among some of the curious 

 homes of this country and other lands was begun in November and 

 will be ended next month. 



We thank the boys and girls who have sent us so many pleasing 

 accounts of bird-life during the year past. One little girl who walks 

 five miles to school daily, shows her interest by taking time to send the 

 answers to the puzzles each month. 



Those of you who live where Old Winter storms and blows, nipping 



the ears and fingers, will attract a cheerful company if you hang from 



the trees about your homes, small open-meshed bags filled with nuts, 



berries, suet, etc. Suspend them from the twigs and you will soon 



hear Mr. Nuthatch laughing ha, ha, at the way in which the English 



.Sparrows have been cheated. 



Cordially your friend, 



Meg Merrythought. 



