. 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 . Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Pig. 9. PLATE XLVII. —Bird Houses and Nesting Boxes. Fig. 1, hollow limb nest-ing box; Fig. 2, birch bark bird house ; Fig. 3, slab bird box; Fig. 4, cat-proofbox; Fig. 5, a use for an old funnel; Fig. 6, chestnut-bark nesting box; Figs. 7and 9, boxes with slide fronts; Fig. 8, house for Tree Swallow. THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 391. sawed from the ends of the s
. 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 . Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Pig. 9. PLATE XLVII. —Bird Houses and Nesting Boxes. Fig. 1, hollow limb nest-ing box; Fig. 2, birch bark bird house ; Fig. 3, slab bird box; Fig. 4, cat-proofbox; Fig. 5, a use for an old funnel; Fig. 6, chestnut-bark nesting box; Figs. 7and 9, boxes with slide fronts; Fig. 8, house for Tree Swallow. THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 391. sawed from the ends of the stick, will make the top and bot-tom. These must be reduced in size by a shave until thebark can be lapped fully half an inch at the incision on theback. Now tack the bark to the bottom and top. Such abox may be put up by nailing or screwing a short stick orpole over the lap on the back, which stick inturn may be nailed or screwed to the make the roof watertight, a piece of thin,green bark from a young pine may be put onand tacked down over the edges. It will fitlike soft leather, and make a neat appearance ;but experience has shown that it will not longresist the eflfect of sun and rain. A more per-manent covering may be made by using a pieceof tin or zinc, as shown in the figure of thechestnut bark box (Plate XLVII, Fig. 6); ora roof may be made of birch bark, as shown inPlate XLVn, Fig. 2. To make the expectednest accessible to examination, the top of thebark sides might be fastened to a hoop, andthe whole capped by a tin or wooden cover, like
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