128 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



sists them in playing the game. My 6, 2, 4, 15, is in the 4, 2, 3, 14. 

 4, 11, 9, 15, 3, 9, 4. 6, 15, say goodbye this 4, 5, 6, 15. 



Jacob Stehman, 

 Rohrerstown, Pa. 



SEARCH QUESTIONS. 



1. What species of bird lays one egg which, when moved, does not 

 roll away, but revolves about its own tip? 



2. What sea bird has a greater expanse of wing in proportion to the 

 weight of its body than any other bird? 



3. What two common birds show great faith in man? 



Joe C. Nelson, 

 Hannibal, Mo. 



WINTER NESTS. 



(Continued from March.) 



4. Along the brook where the elderberry bushes are thick, we are 

 pretty sure to find a rather bulky nest built of twigs and rootlets, and 

 so conspicuous that we wonder how it escaped our notice even when 

 the leaves were on the bushes. 



5. In the wild blackberry tangle near by, we may find another a 

 good deal like it though broader, flatter and with longer twigs. And 

 then, we remember last June, when a certain long-tailed fellow used 

 to sit, morning after morning, in the tip-top of the old tree in the midst 

 of the briars, and sing to his heart's content. 



6. Back to the woods again, and up near the tops of some of the 

 tallest bushes is a thin, rather flat nest, four or five inches across, made 

 largely of thin stems of grass and weeds, a loosely built affair that can 

 ill stand the winter winds. Its maker is a brightly colored finch, a fine 

 singer, whose song and nest both strongly resemble those of 



7. Another beauty of the woods, who is smaller and is not a finch, 

 but whose nest is more often placed on a low branch of a tree than in 

 the bushes. The greatest difference between their songs is, that No. 

 6. is continuous, a rich, sweet warble, while No. 7. breaks his up some- 

 what, and his voice is less rich. 



8. Our last nest belongs to a finch too. A pretty little bird, much 

 brighter than his mate, and who sings far into the summer after many 

 other species have ceased. The nest is rather deep, a perfect handful 

 of fine weed-stems and similar material, usually in the bushes not far 

 from the ground. Look for it in an old clearing where the young trees 

 are beginning to take possession. 



Isabella McC. Lemmon, 



Englewood, N. J. 



