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ROLL OF HONOR:— Stafford Francis, Exeter, N. H. Leroy B. 

 B. Noble, Cromwell, Conn. Marietta Washburn, Goodwin, 

 S. D. Joseph Shirrefs, Elizabeth, N. J. Joseph C. Nelson, Hannibal, 

 Mo. Clair McMorran. Spokane, Wash. Gerald B. Thomas, Liver- 

 more, la. Mary Agnes Johnson, Kansas City, Mo. Fred T. Morrison, 

 Montclair, N. J. 



ANSWER TO ENIGMA IN NOVEMBER NUMBER, 



Thanksgiving Turkey. 

 Turnkey, one in charge of a prison's key. 

 Green is the most restful color one ever sees. 

 " Hank, is thread all bound together, 

 Treat, is an unusual pleasure. 

 Greatheart leads us to higher things, 

 Veery Thrush, very sweetly sings. 

 Vikings, from old Sweden came. 

 Striving, we may win great fame. 

 The turkey now is fat and sweet. 

 That we Thanksgiving day will eat. 



Mary Agnes Johnson, Kansas City, Mo. 



ANSWERS TO DECEMBER PUZZLES, 

 Enigma. Wren. 



QUERIES, 



1. The tailor-birds make a pocket-like nest, by sewing together the 

 edges of leaves, using their sharp bills for needles, and fibre of plants 

 for thread. 



2. The Anis, a species of cuckoo found In the Bahamas and the 

 greater Antilles, build but one nest, in which several females lay and 

 share the task of incubation. 



3. The Crested Flycatcher lines the hollow where he nests, with 

 cast off snake skins. 



4. The Humming bird, Pewee, and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher shingle 

 their homes with gray lichens to match the surrounding wood work. 



5. The cradle of the Marsh Wrens is a globe of sedge and grasses 

 hung from reeds in the marshes, with the doorway on one side. It 

 builds seven nests each season, perhaps as a method of protection. 



6. The Burrowing Owls make borrows, in which they lay a half 

 dozen white eggs. 



7. Bank Swallows breed in large colonies, making tunnels about 

 one and a half feet deep in a bank of clay. The Kingfisher excavates 

 a hole' sometimes eight feet deep, in a bank of sand, gravel or earth; 

 it often takes the bird two weeks to make the hole. 



