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June, were a bunch driven away from their former home, which had 

 become crowded, or were discouraged from nesting in the home-box 

 by unfavorable conditions. In their wandering over new territory, 

 they have located Mr. Lippencott's new bird-house, and although too 

 late to breed this year, they will return there early next spring. 



FIGURE 14 

 Style 9 House erected on dead tree stub. 

 Baltimore, Md. 



Samuel W. Lippencott, 



Baltimore, Md., August 8, 1910. 



Mr. J. Warren Jacobs, 

 Waynesburg, Pa. 

 Dear Sir: 



I obtained a Martin house from you this spring and erected it about the first of 

 April in anticipation of a flight of Martins such as I have noticed in former seasons; 

 but they did not repeat the performance and I concluded that I would have to wait 

 another year, since there is, to my knowledge, but one colony anywhere near from which 

 I could expect some outcasts. 



A sparrow took possession of an attic apartment, and as she and a Mrs. Wren were 

 the only applicants, I didn't take time to exercise my influence in favor of the latter. 



About the middle of June a Martin visited the house and was promptly pounced 



