3i8 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



ENIGMA. 



I am composed of 23 letters. 

 My 7-21-12-9-5-17-22-18 is a small but lively bird. 



You should 1-2-11-8-10 the birds when they come back in the spring. 

 My 13-14-15 is a household pest. 

 If you are 3-4-5 well when you are young you will never 7-11-1-2-21- 



18 it 

 My 16-20-11-9-9 is a fine game. 

 6-20-8-4-10 yourself rather than your friend. 

 Don't 19-22-15 about trifles. 

 My whole is a bird which builds a queer nest. 



Stafford A. Francis, 



Exeter, N. H. 



GLEANINGS. 



"The sobered Robin, hunger-silent now, seeks cedar-berries blue, 

 his autumn cheer." 



A singular accident is reported from Utica, N. Y. A few days ago a 

 large Blue Heron alighted on a wire carrying power from the Newton 

 Falls station to one of the local sub-stations of the Utica and Mohawk 

 Valley R. R. Co., and shortly thereafter the bird's bill came in contact 

 with another wire. Immediately the current was cross-circuited, the 

 fuses at the sub-power station burned out, the wires broke, the power 

 stopped and the 22,000 volts that the wires carried wrought havoc with 

 the bird. Scores of trolley cars on the city and surburban line were 

 stalled and for five hours, or until the cause of the mischief was dis- 

 covered and the damage repaired, all electric traffic in the Mohawk 

 Valley was suspended. (Christian Herald.) 



