62 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



ENIGMA. 



My 1st is in rope but not in twine, 



My 2nd in good but not in bad, 



Mr 3rd is in bat and also in ball, 



My 4th is in silk but not in thread, 



While my 5th you will find in the small word in r 



And my whole is a bird you have often heard of, 



Stewart M. Firth, 



So. Orange, N. J. 



ENIGMA NO. 2, 



My name is long and contains 20 letters. See if you can find out who 

 I am. 



Of 7-12-5-15. 4 great and worthy efforts have been made to 17-3-5, 

 8-19-20 girls and boys to shoot birds with cameras and kodaks instead 

 of guns. May it have 1-2-3-4-5 success and stop the murder of animals 

 and birds for "fun." 11-7-12-9-14 beauty has been a 5-2-18-3 help to 

 many horses. If you 16-3-4-7 out kindness to animals they 4-2-15 al- 

 ways grateful. On the 16-3-13-10 of a 7-4-2-1-15 steamer were piles of 

 1-2-15-12-5-6-4-1-s of wheat. Before the end of the trip several of the 

 11-4-1-s had 9-2-4-13-10-3-16 and a good 16-15-4-19 of the grain had been 

 lost. 



Jean Lampton, 

 Florence, Italy, 



SOME CURIOUS HOMES. 



(concluded) 



Are you ready to journey onward? Cigam! Now we open our eyes 

 upon familiar scenes. Yes, this is Old New England, and here we shall 

 find architects as worthy of our attention as those we have travelled far 

 to see. In this tunnel in a clayey bank four feet long with an abrupt 

 turn at right angels at the further end. There we find the eggs of the 

 Kingfisher in a large jug-shaped pocket. 



Had we the time we might visit some of the large colonies formed 

 of the nests of the passenger pigeons; they seem to prefer cities of 

 their own, to scattered dwellings, for there are records of millions of 

 these pigeons' nests built within a short distance of each other: every 

 boy and girl has seen the nests of various kinds of swallows, so close 

 that each householder could gossip with his neighbor without stirring 

 from his own threshold. The Red-winged Black-birds and many other 

 birds seem to prefer company during the breeding season. 



