258 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



ANSWERS TO JUNE PUZZLES, 



Birds That Tell Their Names. 

 No. 6, Chebec or Least Flycatcher. No. 7, Chewink. 



NUMERICAL ENIGMA, 



Baltimore Oriole. 



AN ENIGMA, 

 Crow. 



CHARACTERISTIC INITIALS. 



Bob White, Northern Shrike, Baltimore Oriole, Song Sparrow, 

 Meadow Lark, Mourning Dove. 



HOUR GLASS, 



Robin. 



HURRY 

 BOY 



B 



P I E 



CANDY 



WHAT IS ITS NAME.? 

 Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



ROLL OF HONOR, 



Lewis Stiles Gannet, Rochester, N. Y.; Eunice Joslin, Webster, 

 Mass.; Wm. Schneider, La Crosse, Wis.; Louise Jordon, Defiance, 

 Ohio; Stafford A. Francis, Exeter, N. H.; Samuel D. Robbins, Bel- 

 mont, Mass.; Lillian M. Weeks, Marietta, Ohio; Gerald B. Thomas, 

 Livermore, Iowa; Isidor Rehfuss, La Crosse, Wis. 



EXTRACTS FROM OUR MAIL BAG. 



One day in April I was walking through the woods when I heard a 

 sharp chatter, and looking up I saw a squirrel looking out of a Flicker's 

 hole in a dead tree. On climbing up, I found five young squirrels and as 

 I was climbing down I noticed another hole just below this one. The 

 minute I put my hand in the hole I received a sharp nip, and on with- 

 drawing my hand I was surprised to see a Saw-whet Owl- She had 

 such a tight hold on my finger that I drew her clear out of the hole, 

 when she flew off with a great snapping of her bill. In the nest I found 



