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ANSWERS, TO APRIL PUZZLES. 



Enigma No. 1. Scarlet Tanager. No. 2. Grackle. A Spring 

 Enigma, Bluebird, Robin. Birds who tell their names. No. 1. Chick- 

 adee. No. 2. Bob White. No. 3. Peabody Bird (White-throated 

 Sparrow. ) 



ROLL OF HONOR. 



Gerald B. Thomas, Livermore, Iowa. Chas. H. Rogers, New York 

 City. Chas. De Garis, Hannibal, Mo. Sally W. Orvis, Manchester, 

 Vt. Harold Moore, Newtonville, Mass. Clair McMorran, Spokane, 

 Wash. Eunice Joslyn, Webster, Mass. Louise Jordan, Defiance, 

 Ohio. Francis Root, Oberlin, Ohio. Stafford Francis, Exeter, N. H. 

 Fl. B. Crispell, Kingston, N. Y. 



THE COMING OF THE BIRDS. 



You may be interested to compare the dates of the arrival of a few 

 of the birds at their summer homes as reported by some of our lads in 

 various parts of the country. Lewis Drury reports the appearance of 

 the bluebirds March 4th, robins the 5th at Rutland, Vt. S. B. Covert, 

 the meadow lark at Plymouth, on March 8th, (earlier than ever known 

 in that vicinity.) Chas. Rogers, N. Y. city, crow blackbirds, March 

 10th, fox sparrows, March 5th, brown creeper, March 9th. Stafford 

 Francis, Exeter, N. H., March 5th, the juncos, 6th, robins and blue- 

 iDirds, 10th, song sparrows, 12th, red-winged blackbirds, 13th, black- 

 ■birds, 17th, phoebe, 24th,meadow lark. Chas. Abbott, Antrim, N. H., 

 .March 20th, Phoebe and Song Sparrow. 



FROM OUR MAIL BAG, 



There is a question which I wish to ask. Is anyone nowadays justi- 

 fied in shooting birds to make collections? I began by doing so but it 

 seemed so unnecessary in this advanced age when so many fine collec- 

 tions have already been made, and when almost any one can get a good 

 pair of field glasses at little expense. It seems that all of our Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists have begun in that way, but maybe they did not 

 .have glasses and text books as we have today. 



Chas. DeGaris, Hannibal, Mo. 



My brother and I were walking through a field looking for nests. All 

 •of a sudden we saw a field sparrow fly up with food in its bill. We hid 

 in the bushes and watched. We saw she went down in a clump of 

 Ijushes. We then got up and went over to the spot, but saw nothing. 



