. 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. 9. PLATE XLVII. —Bird Houses and Nesting Boxes. Fig. 1, hollow limb nest-mg box; Fig-. 2. l)ircli bark bird house; Fig. P,, slab bird box; Fig. 4, cat-proofbox ; Fig. .5, a use for au old funnel; Fig. C. chestnut-bark nesting box : Figs. 7and 9, boxes with slide fronts; Fig. 8, house for Tree Swallow. THE PROTECTION OE BIIiDS. 391. Fig. 166. —Birch-bark nesting Ijox,for
. 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. 9. PLATE XLVII. —Bird Houses and Nesting Boxes. Fig. 1, hollow limb nest-mg box; Fig-. 2. l)ircli bark bird house; Fig. P,, slab bird box; Fig. 4, cat-proofbox ; Fig. .5, a use for au old funnel; Fig. C. chestnut-bark nesting box : Figs. 7and 9, boxes with slide fronts; Fig. 8, house for Tree Swallow. THE PROTECTION OE BIIiDS. 391. Fig. 166. —Birch-bark nesting Ijox,for Chickadees. 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 fxiWy half an inch at the incision on theback. Now tack the l)ark to the l)ottom and top. Such abox may be put up by nailing or screwino- a short stick orpole over the lap on the ))ack, which stick canin turn be nailed or screwed to the sui^ make the roof watertight, a })iece 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 apjiearancc ;but experience has shown that it will not longresist the effect 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 l)ox (Plate XLVII, Fig. (]); ora roof may be made of birch bark, as shown inPlate XLVII, Fig. 2. To make the expectednest accessible to examination, the top of thebark sides might be fastened
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