158 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



SOME SOCIABLE BIRDS. 



We have five large pieces of ham rinds tacked to arbor posts and a 

 wood shed and bread on the porch and we seldom look out without 

 seeing some kind of a bird pecking at them. 



Our little visitors daily consist of Chickadees, Nuthatches, Red-headed 

 Woodpeckers, Snowbirds, Tree Chippies and three beautiful Blue Jays. 

 Most of them are very tame. The tiny "Chicks" hang to their meat 

 while we pass and repass within three or four feet of them, and the 

 large Woodpecker clung to his post with someone within two feet from 

 h i m . 



My young son recently stood in a neighbor's yard surrounded by 

 tiny Chickadees and Snowbirds, and soon a bold little Chickadee came 

 fluttering in his face, and lighted on his shoulder, and began pecking 

 and pulling at his ear, bracing and scratching its little feet into the 

 boy's coat while it pulled harder and harder till my son carefully drew 

 back his head because the little bill hurt, and the bird left. The boy 

 left for home well pleased with his experience, and for over an hour 

 his ear plainly showed the bright pink wedge-shaped marks of the bill 

 of the saucy little mite. Every day I feed the birds immense quantities of 

 bread, drying it first, and the Jays are genuine gluttons. They made 

 a Chickadee drop a large piece of bread and cried and yelled at the tiny 

 bird. Then flew down all bristled up like a mother hen, and stole it. 



Susie R. Doolittle, Cheshire, Conn. 



NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 



I am the name of a beautiful and favorite bird. I am composed of 

 17 letters. My 6, 1, 4, 12, 5, 15, 1, 11 is a beautiful bird. My 3, 9, 9, 

 we find in the nest. My 13, 11, 7, 9, is what all Americans should hon- 

 or. My 16, 17, 5, 15 is part of the face. My 4, 14, 6, 3, is often eaten 

 by Bobolinks. My 2, 10, 10, 8, always finds the birds asleep. 



Eleanor Pope, Racine, Wis. 



ENIGMA, NUMBER 2. 



I am a bird composed of 17 letters. While 1, 8, 14, 5, 16 was get- 

 ting dinner on the 17, 13, 8, 12, 3 she heard a noise which startled her 

 and turning around, she saw two 2, 5, 6, 10, near the door. She call- 

 ed her brother, who was just coming in. His clothes were all 11, 7, 

 12, 15, for he had met a bad 4, 7, 9, and he soon chased them away. 



A. P. Woodward, Danielson, Conn. 



