232 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



PUZZLES. 



Birds That Tell Their Names. 



(Concluded.) 



Our third flycatcher, (No. 6,) is a good deal smaller than No. 5, and 

 one of his names refers to his small size; but the name he calls has 

 only two syllables in it and he jerks it out. He does not care very 

 much for the woods, but likes such places as shady lawns and old 

 orchards, and on a branch there builds a beautiful little nest of fine 

 roots, down, like that which carries the thistle seeds, long hairs, lots of 

 things, but all dull in color so that when the nest is finished it is so 

 like the branch that holds it, and is so small that it is not an easy one 

 to find. 



My last bird, No. 7, likes the bushes at the edge of the woods, and 

 there he scratches away among the leaves, now and then calling out 

 his name, and sometimes flying up to a low branch to sing a short 

 song. He is about as large as a robin and is a dark bird with a good 

 deal of black on his breast as well as above, but there is dull reddish 

 on his sides and as he flies he shows white in his long tail. His wife 

 is much browner, but she has the white tail feathers too. 



Isabella McC. Lemmon, 



Englewood, N. J. 



NUMERICAL ENIGMA, 



I am a beautiful bird composed of fifteen letters. My 1, 9, 2, 11 is a 

 large but not very ferocious wild animal. My 2, 14, 9 is a liquid liked 

 by many. My 3, 7, 10, 6, gives work to many people. My 5, 8, 15, 

 was aroused by my friend's 3, 12, 9. My 4, 13, 7, 3, is a very sharp 

 and good one. Jean Lampton, 



Riverda^e-on-Hudson, New York. 



AN ENIGMA, 



My first is cat but not in rat, 

 My second in rat but not in cat, 

 My third is in you, but not in me, 



My fourth h's not in large but it is in wee. 

 My whole is a bird that nests in a tree. 

 And is very common to you and me. 



Clarence C. Abbott, (age 10) 



New York city. 



