230 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



ANSWERS TO MAY PUZZLES. 



Enigma No. 1, Great Northern Shrike, Enigma No. 2, White-breast- 

 ed Nuthatch, Chickadee. 



BIRDS THAT TELL THEIR NAMES. 

 No. 4, Phoebe, No. 5, Pewee. 



ROLL OF HONOR. 



Alice Garland, Boston, Mass., Marietta Washburn, Goodwin, S. D., 

 Hugo E. Wunsch, Haven, Wisconsin, Samuel D. Robbins, Belmont, 

 Mass., Leroy B. Noble, Cromwell, Conn., Louise Jordan, Defiance, 

 Ohio., John A. Parks, Shaftsburg, Mich., Raymond Hill, Uxbridge, 

 Mass., Everett P. Walton, New Vineyard, Maine, Gerald B. Thomas, 

 Livermore, la., Jean Lampton, Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y., Stafford 

 A. Francis, Exeter, Mass., Charles H. Abbott, Antrim, N: H., E. W. 

 Greaves, Clearmont, Mo., Wm. Schneider, LaCrosse, Wis., Isidor 

 Rehfuss, LaCrosse, Wis., Edith M. Little, Waquoit, Mass., Grace E. 

 Peaslee, East Ware, N. H., Catherine Okey (age 9) Cambridge, O. 



EXTRACTS FROM OUR MAIL BAG. 



One day I noticed an exceedingly large Red-winged Blackbird fly up 

 from the swamp and seem to call others, for presently two smaller 

 Blackbirds arose, and the three flew off toward the east. In a very 

 short time the three, with about one hundred other male Blackbirds, 

 came back and settled down in the swamp near ine. The three birds 

 flew to the east end of the lake again, and returned this time with 

 about one hundred female Blackbirds. When all were down feeding, 

 the largest of the three birds flew off again, and from his actions and 

 his size I judged him to be the king, or leader of the flock. On his 

 return one Blackbird only, accompanied him, and this was a female as 

 large as himself. When these two came near to the flock every bird 

 arose as if to meet them, and then all settled down to feed. As I was 

 watching them one day toward the end of summer they all rose and 

 flew south and I did not see them again that year. 



One day as I was walking along the shore beneath some sand bluff's, 

 I noticed that there was a hole about four inches in diameter in the 

 side of one of them. When I put my arm in the hole I could not 

 reach the end. I found two pieces of lath on the beach and tying one 

 to the end of the other, I put that into the hole, and I could feel the 

 end of the stick being pecked at. I knew then that there must be a 



