time to time, the whole bolted to an 
oaken batten, by which they may be fas- 
tened to trees (see page 161). 
These were formerly obtained in Eu- 
rope, but are now manufactured by 
least two people in this country. Those on 
my place have been occupied by screech- 
owls, bluebirds, chickadees, tree-swal- 
lows, flickers, white-breasted nuthatches, 
and great-crested flycatchers. House- 
wrens, which are very local in our part 
of the country, have so far avoided them, 
and I have failed ignominiously to at- 
tract either the downy or the hairy wood- 
peckers, both of which frequent my 
woods. 
One firm makes bird-houses out of 
natural hollow logs or limbs, with a hole 
bored in the side, and wooden cap and 
bottom, while another makes an imita- 
tion woodpecker’s nest of pottery. The 
type previously described is, however, in 
my opinion, far and away ahead of these 
others. 
BIRDS THAT WILL NEST IN PREPARED 
HOUSES 
About houses and buildings, particu- 
larly those on our farms, the ordinary 
type of bird-house rather than the hollow 
log is perhaps more appropriate. Blue- 
birds, tree-swallows, and house-wrens 
take to them readily, and if you have a 
large house on a high pole you may be 
lucky enough to attract a colony of 
martins. Chickadees, great-crested fly- 
catchers, and screech-owls may use these 
boxes, and the following is a list of birds 
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER 
This is a photograph of a wild chickadee feeding her young in June, 
Photograph by Louise Birt Baynes 
THE DAINTIEST GUEST 
A picture of an inquisitive and vefy puzzled 
humming-bird probing an artificial flower 
, a 
Photograph by Ernest Harold Baynes 
She does not fear in 
summer the hand that feeds her in winter. 
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