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houses, in the smaller houses 7 pairs of Bluebirds and 5 pairs of House Wrens 

 made up the total of desirable bird-house occupants up to July i, 1914. 



In comparison, we found the following season, on May 3, 1915 inspection, 

 22 pairs of Bluebirds, every one of which brought off the young of the first 

 brood and many more nests were found either incomplete or abandoned, of 

 which no record was made. June 16, 1915 inspection showed in the 10 Martin- 

 houses 117 pairs of breeding Martins, 16 pairs House Wrens, 12 pairs Tree 

 Swallows, 8 pairs Flickers, 2 pairs Chickadees, i pair Crested Flycatchers. 



TREE SWALLOWS FAVOR THIS TYPE OF HOUSE 

 Seventy-seven pairs had either eggs or young on Stuart Acres, in houses of this kind or similar 



to it on June iq, iqiS 



The next season, 1916, June 13 inspection showed 159 pairs Martins, 27 

 pairs Bluebirds, 21 pairs Tree Swallows, 9 pairs Flickers, 2 pairs Chickadees, 

 20 pairs House Wrens, 2 pairs Screech Owls, i pair Brown Creepers, i pair 

 Tufted Titmice, 153 pairs English Sparrows. 



The season of 1917, inspection of June 19, showed 190 pairs Martins, 46 

 paips Bluebirds, 43 pairs Tree Swallows, 18 pairs House Wrens, 9 pairs Flickers, 

 4 pairs Screech Owls, 64 pairs English Sparrows. 



For the present season the inspection made June 19, 1918, follows: 222 

 pairs Martins, 38 pairs Bluebirds, 77 pairs Tree Swallows, 4 pairs Flickers, 4 

 pairs Screech Owls, i pair Sparrow Hawks, 8 pairs House Wrens, 30 pairs 

 English Sparrows. 



Bluebirds and House Wrens are much fewer than in previous years, prob- 

 ably on account of the extraordinary severity of last winter, 1917-1918. In 

 conjunction with the Game Warden's Department of the State of Michigan an 



