THE GREY WARBLER

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23000, 20 April 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE GREY WARBLER

(By Donald Mcßae; Alford Forest) One day when I was walking through the bush I noticed a grey warbler’s nest hanging from a twig in the tree. Not long after the grey warbler itself came and flew round the nest till, it noticed me, then it flew to a near-by branch to watch what I was going to do. So then I looked in, and there, to my surprise, I saw an egg, pale blue with pink spots. The bird was grey with a little green in colour, and about the size of a tom-tit. This little chap lives on insects: he looks so funny dartin •'•here and there so quickly. The nests look very cosy for. the, cold weather. These birds seem to be very rare now, for I seldom see one; I hope they become more plentiful, for they are really harmless birds.

Riddle-Me-Ree

’ (By Nancy Phillips, Hororata) My first is in cat but not in mouse, My second is in whare and also in house. My ’ third is in terror but not In scare. My fourth is in covered but not m bare, . - My fifth is in frog but not in fish, My sixth is in plate but not in dish, My seventh Is in early and also in late. My eighth is in currant and also in date, My ninth is in ride and also m hike. My whole is something that most of us like. Answer on page 3.

PEN-FRIENDS

Iris Pearson, Longbeach R.D., Ashburton, sends the following names and addresses of English girls who would like pen-friends in New Zealand: — Nora Goud (15 years), 3 Broomhill Mount, Ingrow, Keighley, Yorks, England; Doris Peckover (14 years), 11 Olenhurst drive, Park lane, Keighley, Yorks, England; Barbara Marmont (16 years), 4 Oak grove, Ingrow, Keighley, Yorks, England.

NOTICES

Readers are Invited to send questions which will be answered as fully as possible in these columns. Children’s contributions, apart from stories and poems, should be about things they have seen or done.