AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 117 



ANSWER TO JANUARY ENIGMA. 



The trusting little fellow 



That runs twittering in the snow, 

 Is the beautiful Snow Bunting, 



As we easily may know. 



And the bird that we think cruel 



Is the snowy northern Shrike, 

 For he sits upon a bough 



And tries at little birds to strike. 



Mary A. Johnson, Mo. 



ROLL OF HONOR, 



Gerald B. Thomas, Livermore, Iowa. Stafford Francis, Exeter, IST.- 

 H. Harris H. Gilman, Winchester, Mass. Charles H. Rogers, N. Y. 

 City. Clair McMorran, Spokane, Wash. Edith M. Little, Waquoit,, 

 Mass. E. Louise Jordan, Defiance, Ohio. Marjory Lester, Kinsley,. 

 Kans. Mary A. Johnson, Kansas City, Mo. Leroy B. Noble, Crom- 

 well, Conn. Marietta Washburn, Goodwin, S. D. Wm. Schneider, 

 LaCrosse, Wis. Lillian Weeks, Marietta, Ohio. 



FROM OUR MAIL BAG. 



Where I was this summer there were a great many Great Blue Her- 

 ons. On one of the drives we took we saw sixteen of these beautiful 

 birds standing close together, and on the same drive we saw four more, 

 making twenty in all. 



There were about ten quite near the house in a mill pond of salt 

 water. The tide did not go out of this at low tide. There was a long 

 point running out into the pond, with no trees on it, but only grass a 

 foot high. The -herons would stand at the end of this point so that 

 they could see any danger approaching. One day I crawled out on the 

 point. I had to be very careful and lie flat, for if I rose up beyond the 

 top of the grass they would fly. There were two on the point at the 

 time, and I watched them for a long time. They would stand there in 

 the water about a foot and a half deep, and wait for the fish to come 

 near them, and then opening their mouths they would put their heads 

 tinder water with a sweeping motion, and then lift their heads high in 

 the air and let the fish run down their throats. 



There were also Bitterns, Little Green Herons, and Night Herons 

 at the beginning of the point. Harris H. Oilman, 



Winchester, Mass, 



