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boxes, and they were a great success. Later, 

 at the request of Mr. William Dutcher, President 

 of the National Association of Audubon Societies, 

 he undertook to direct the manufacture of Ber- 

 lepsch nest boxes in this country, and slightly 

 modified to meet the special requirements of 

 American birds, they are now made by the 

 Audubon Bird House Company in Meriden, 

 New Hampshire. Among American birds which 

 the writer knows to have used these boxes, are: 

 sparrow hawk, screech owl, hairy woodpecker, 

 downy woodpecker, red-headed woodpecker, 

 flicker, great-crested flycatcher, starling, tree 

 swallow, house wren, white-breasted nuthatch, 

 red-breasted nuthatch, chickadee, bluebird. 



Some of these birds, hairy and downy wood- 

 pecker, and red-breasted nuthatch, for instance, 

 have never been known to enter any other 

 kind of nesting box; and others, the sparrow 

 hawk and red-headed woodpecker, for examples, 

 have rarely been known to do so. In fact less 

 than one-half the birds mentioned in the above 

 list regularly nest in carpenter-made nest boxes 

 of any kind. Thus it will be seen that in spite 

 of the fact that Berlepsch nest boxes are only 

 just beginning to be known in this country, 

 they already more than hold their own against 

 all the other kinds put together. It is the 



