AMERICAN ORNITHOLOOY. 155 



NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 



I am a beautiful bird and composed of fourteen letters. My 12, 14, 

 6, 13, 10 is what nature robes the earth with once a year. My 1, 7, 4, 



11, 10, 12, 13, 4 is what I am on the Dakota prairies. My 10, 6, 1, 7 is 

 what holds my tiny treasures. I fear the 2, 9, 8, as he killed my mate. 

 Every day I look for'5, 3, 14, 12, 6, worms. 



Marietta Washburn, Goodwin, S. D. 

 Enigma No. 2. 



My first is in great but not in small. 



My second in race but not in ball. 



My third you will find in the word man. 



While my next is found in the short word can. 



My fifth and seventh are hid in kite, 



While my sixth is in the word delight. 



There's letters seven in my name 



Mr. Sparrow and mine are just the same. 



Now can everyone guess my name aright? 



For I am a bird as black as night. 



Marietta Washburn. 

 A Spring Enigma. 



I am composed of 13 letters, forming the names of two birds. The 

 1st is from 1 to 8 and the 2nd from 9 to 13. My 7, 10, 1, 5, 4, 9, is 

 found in every city. My 9, 10, 5, 4, is an article of dress. My 11, 6, 

 13, 8, 4, 7, is a farming implement. My 11, 6, 9, 8, is what every 

 reader of the A. O. is looking for. My 11, 3, 2, 5, is a part of a lily. 

 My 13, 4, 4, 8, is what is occurring at present in regard to coal. My 1, 



12, 8, is what is made at an auction. My 11, 3. 12, 2, 8, is what most 

 birds do in May or June. My 7, 10, 5, 6. 13, is the name of a bird that 

 is commonly known. My 9, 3, 5, is what a cat does to sharpen her 

 claws. All the letters form two birds that are among the first to come 

 in the Spring. Wm. Schneider, Lacrosse, Wis. 



BIRDS THAT TELL THEIR NAMES. 



How many birds do you know that call their own names? There is 

 one little fellow that is with us winter and summer, and we all know and 

 like him. He is gray on the back, and white below, and wears a black 

 cap on his head, and he nests in a hole in a tree, sometimes in an old 

 woodpecker's hole, though he is not a woodpecker himself. We will 

 call him No. 1. Number 2 is a great many times larger, and all his 

 ways are different. To begin with, he lives on the ground nearly all 

 the time, nests on the ground, even roosts on the ground. When he 

 and the friends tnat are with him sit in a circle, huddled together to 



