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FIGURE !) 



The handsome Style 4 house shown in this cut was erected on the 

 Lake Forest residence grounds of Mr. Byron L. Smith, President of 

 I lit- Xorthern Trust Company of Chicago, Illinois, and while it was 

 erected in ample time, no breeding Martins occupied the compart- 

 ments this year, although other well established houses on his 

 premises were occupied. All his old houses, however, are on fifty 

 foot telephone poles which may account for the birds ignoring the 

 new house at a lower elevation. It is more probable, however, that 

 his old houses were not over-crowded, in which event no Martins 

 would be compelled to seek new nesting quarters. 



The author of this pamphlet lias a Style 1 house, erected in the spring 

 of 1904, which lias always been a favorite with the Martins. The 

 elevation of this house is seventeen feet above the ground, and the 

 first occupants were the former tenants of his Style 1 house in which 

 the colonv was established in 1896. 



