. Wild bird protection and nesting boxes ... and a full list of the orders made under the "Wild Birds Protection Acts" .. . other ornithologicalworks. Mr. Sutton Davies, wlio has recently travelled inSwedish Lapland, kindly informs me that it is theGoldeneye Duck for which these nest-boxes, called Tjdla by the Finns and Holkar or Knipa-ho(Goldeneye-nest) by the Swedes, are in the mainintended. Nest boxes observed by Mr. Sutton Davies atAdolfstrom in Swedisli Lapland, in August, 1894»were nearly always placed in the vicinity of run-ning water, the Goldeneye always preferring suchplaces. The ske
. Wild bird protection and nesting boxes ... and a full list of the orders made under the "Wild Birds Protection Acts" .. . other ornithologicalworks. Mr. Sutton Davies, wlio has recently travelled inSwedish Lapland, kindly informs me that it is theGoldeneye Duck for which these nest-boxes, called Tjdla by the Finns and Holkar or Knipa-ho(Goldeneye-nest) by the Swedes, are in the mainintended. Nest boxes observed by Mr. Sutton Davies atAdolfstrom in Swedisli Lapland, in August, 1894»were nearly always placed in the vicinity of run-ning water, the Goldeneye always preferring suchplaces. The sketch (Fig. 1) of an open nest box for thenidification of the Goldeneye duck was made onthe spot by Mr. Sutton Davies. It was placed inclose proximity to a large rapid which formed theoutflow of a lake at Adolfstrom, the box beingfixed in a fir tree about fifteen feet above theground and thirty yards distant from the water,upon a bank above the river. The box had notop, but a bottom was loosely nailed on. Another box examined by Mr. Sutton Davieagreatly resembled Fig. 1, but the bottom consisted NESTING BOXES, ETC. 88. li-lG. 1.—Open Nest Box, providel for the nidification ofthe Gokleneye Duck, sketched l)y Mr. Sutton Davies atAdolf Strom, Swedish Lapland. NESTING BOXES, ETC. 85 of a flat stone secured by two strips of woodnailed across—this box also had no top. A third box (see Fig. 2) also sketched fromnature by Mr. Sutton Da vies, was of a somewliatdiflerent character, being closed in at the top. Itwas firmly fixed up in a fir tree, about eighteen feetabove the ground, and some twenty feet distantfrom the first rapid of the Adolfstroom. This box was 36 inches long, and the entrancewas ver} large, the whole structure being securedto the tree by a branch passing through a hole atthe back, the top of the box being lightly nailed box contained moss, dead juniper twigs, birchtwigs, and a very little down. A fourth box was of the same size as No. 2, andplaced about ten f
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