AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, 3^7 



PI. 



The Talagalet or Brush Turkey lives in Australia. It is of black- 

 ish brown color and is almost as large as our domestic ketruy. 



The Talaglet are usually found in small sclofk, and make their 

 stens together, heaping up with their feet immense mounds of reath and 

 decayed veales, which are used year after year. Each agg is separately 

 drieiib and thached by the thea of the nus, and the fermenting 

 treah. They are partially uncovered by the parent birds during the 

 day. Nearly a shelbu of eggs are sometimes found in one heap. 



WHATISMYNAME? 



I am a bird about as long as a Bobolink with olive-green plumage 

 and brown wings, and two very long feathers in the center of my tail. 

 My home is among the gardens and jungles in China and India. I make 

 a safe, cosy cradle for my babies by sewing other leaves to a green 

 leaf hanging down from a tree, using my bill for a needle, and wool or 

 vegetable fibres, or silk from cocoons for my thread. This cup I line 

 with soft plant down and grass. Here no snake or monkey can dis- 

 turb my little ones in their swinging home. 



CHARACTERISTIC INITIALS. 



What birds are these whose initials appear in capitals below, and 

 whose songs, colors, or habits are thus described ? 



1. Builds Eyrie. 



2. Prettily Flushed, 



3. Intrepid Beauty. 



4. Fearless Character. 



5. Sorrowful Outcry. 



6. Cherries Wanted. 



7. Ever Surplanting. 



HIDDEN BIRDS. 



In each of the following sentences, if you look carefully, you will 

 find the names of some well known birds. 



1. Why Rob, I never thought it was you. 



2. "Mamma," said little Willie, "Bob W. hit Esther on her head."^ 



3. Grace is below Lillian in the spelling class. 



4. The widow rented the white house on the farm. 



Marietta Washburn, 



Goodwin, S. D. 



