. Bird-lore . but another wasbuilt this year. Robins build just outsidethe noisiest wards. Several have built inlow spruce trees in the hedge and one in ahollow in the trunk of a tree. The House Wrens certainly do destroyeggs and nests of Bluebirds, as well asthose of English Sparrows. They willbreak the eggs and drag out the nests. An abundance of cotton put out forbirds has been used by Yellow Warblers,Goldfinches (which began to nest May 30) 90 Bird- Lore and Cedar Waxwings. A Brown Creeperand Red-breasted Nuthatch fed at mystations, with Chickadees, White-breastedNuthatches, and Downies. T
. Bird-lore . but another wasbuilt this year. Robins build just outsidethe noisiest wards. Several have built inlow spruce trees in the hedge and one in ahollow in the trunk of a tree. The House Wrens certainly do destroyeggs and nests of Bluebirds, as well asthose of English Sparrows. They willbreak the eggs and drag out the nests. An abundance of cotton put out forbirds has been used by Yellow Warblers,Goldfinches (which began to nest May 30) 90 Bird- Lore and Cedar Waxwings. A Brown Creeperand Red-breasted Nuthatch fed at mystations, with Chickadees, White-breastedNuthatches, and Downies. The Chickadeesand Nuthatches fed from my hands andseveral more confiding ones took nuts frommy lips. A dead tree so full of holes that we callit the apartment stub held at once inits many openings a Flicker, Downy, anda Bluebird, but the latter was driven off byan English Sparrow. The Chickadeesmade many holes in a fickle manner, halffinishing them and then taking others.—(Dr.) Anne E. Perkins, Collins, N. BLUEBIRDS .\T HOMEPhotographed by Lester Morlock. Ilymouth, Ind. Hanging the Bird-House Like other bird-lovers I have found theannual putting up and taking down ofbird-houses to be a good deal of a nuisance,and the means of attaching them to treesor other supports by means of nails orscrews a very unsatisfactory method. Re-cently I hit upon a i)Ian which I have tried out for a season and found verv use-ful. Instead of fastening the house up withnails I make a small hole on each side ofthe box, near the roof and near the these holes, and extending abouta foot on each side, I slip a piece of strongbut flexible wire. The wire must be strongenough to support the box, but not soheavy that it may not be easily then drive two nails into the tree or othersupport on which the box is to be hung, anda little higher up than the place for thebox to rest. The nails should be about afoot further apart than the width of thebox. The wire I then twist about thesenails,
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