PLATE LVII. — European Devices for Bird Food, Shelter and Nesting. — 



1. Feeding box or food house, with hopper for seed, attached to tree trunk. 



2. Food house attached to wall of shed, — a perfect feeding shelter. 3. Von 

 Berlepsch food bell, showing manner of attaching to tree. 4. Sectional 

 view of nesting cavity made in tree trunk by a woodpecker. 5. Sectional 

 view of the von Berlepsch nesting box, made in imitation of woodpecker's 

 hole by Phillip E. Perry of Lexington, Mass. 6. Sectional view of von 

 Berlepsch food bell, made by Perry, showing how bird seed is protected from 

 storms and how the birds get it. 7. The weather-cock food house, which 

 swings on a pivot, always facing the storm and furnishing perfect shelter. 



