. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . PLATE XLVIII. — Inexpensive Nesting Boxes. Touiato oaii. Bluebird box,old teakettle, peach can, Uwl box, and kerosene PLATE XLIX. —Chickadee about to enter its Nest, in an Old Varnish Can. THE rROTECTION OF BIRDS. 393 or painted tin is best, for birds seem suspicious of briohtsurfaces. There should be a few nail holes in the lower side,to allow the escape of any water
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . PLATE XLVIII. — Inexpensive Nesting Boxes. Touiato oaii. Bluebird box,old teakettle, peach can, Uwl box, and kerosene PLATE XLIX. —Chickadee about to enter its Nest, in an Old Varnish Can. THE rROTECTION OF BIRDS. 393 or painted tin is best, for birds seem suspicious of briohtsurfaces. There should be a few nail holes in the lower side,to allow the escape of any water that may drive in. A large funnel may be nailed to a piece of board, and theboard fastened on the side of the l)arn ; or the funnel itselfmay be fastened to the building. This may be used by aWren or a Chickadee. (See Plate XLVII, Fig. 5.) An oldcoffee pot may be set upon a post, or fastened to a bracketwhich may be set against the side of a building. Milk cans,lard pails, flower pots, teakettles, and many other utensilsmay be utilized, and fastened up in various ways to trees orbuildings ; and, although they may not be ornate, the birdswill find them useful. There should be no projection or limbimmediately beneath a nesting box, to give cat or Crow afoothold from which to reach into the nest; but it is alwaysbetter to have a small li
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