. Bird lore . Made of rough boards. Size, 6 inches high, 5^ inchessquare at the bottom, 3^ inches square at the top. a limb ten or twelve feet from the ground,in such a manner as to allow them toswing slightly. Mr. Geery writes; Itmay happen that the Sparrows will go tothese houses and even commence to build,but, as soon as they find that they swingand are not firm, they will abandon them. Made from a bark-covered log, 8 inches long and 8 inches indiameter, a hole 5 incnes in diameter being bored from endend, leaving an outer wall i]4 inches thick. entirely. Wren boxes should be station-ary, w
. Bird lore . Made of rough boards. Size, 6 inches high, 5^ inchessquare at the bottom, 3^ inches square at the top. a limb ten or twelve feet from the ground,in such a manner as to allow them toswing slightly. Mr. Geery writes; Itmay happen that the Sparrows will go tothese houses and even commence to build,but, as soon as they find that they swingand are not firm, they will abandon them. Made from a bark-covered log, 8 inches long and 8 inches indiameter, a hole 5 incnes in diameter being bored from endend, leaving an outer wall i]4 inches thick. entirely. Wren boxes should be station-ary, with an opening not much larger thana twenty-five-cent piece, and placed so asto be well shaded most of the day. A Musical Woodpecker In the pursuit of my profession I hadoccasion for some time to travel over acertain road, along which is a telephoneline, the glass insulators of which areplaced on short pieces of hard wood whichare nailed directly to the post. Probably half a dozen times, when onthis road, I saw a male Downy Woodpeckerperched directly beneath the hard woodblock, pecking at it in a rflanner to makethe wire ring, then pausing and evidentlylistening to the music it had produced. When the vibration ceased the per-formance was repeated and continued atintervals until I was obliged to drive byand frighten the bird away.—Dr. D. , South RoyaUon, Vt. An Ornitholog
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