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the bottom board projecting a few inches and forming 

 a platform. 



2. Nuthatches and Creepers. Inside measure of box 

 about 20 x 6 x 6, place it on trees from 12 to 25 feet 

 above the ground, rough inside and outside, no perch on 

 the outside, entrance from 1| to 2 inches in diameter. 



3. Woodpeckers. Quite a few of these birds are 

 likely to avail themselves of nesting boxes, if made of 

 hollow trunks and limbs or of wood with the natural 

 bark on it. The boxes may be from 10 x 5 x 5 to 

 36 x 7 x 7 inside measure, the entrance from 2 to 4 

 inches in diameter. Place the boxes on trees from 10 

 to 25 feet high, supply no perches and no thorns. I 

 have found the flicker's nest 4 feet from the ground 

 in an old cottonwood tree, in a cavity only about a foot 

 deep ; and with an entrance large enough for any man's 

 fist. This nest was in a prairie grove, where the cotton- 

 wood was the only hollow tree. A pair of red-headed 

 woodpeckers once built their nest in a telegraph pole 

 on a much-frequented street in St. Paul, Minn. The 

 children from one of the public schools passed there 

 every day. Some boys climbed to the entrance repeat- 

 edly, but the nest was too deep to be reached, and in 

 due time the young appeared on the neighboring house- 

 tops. The best way to attract woodpeckers is to spare 

 old and hollow trees. 



4. Bluebirds. Boxes of about 10 x 6 x 6 inside 

 measure, fastened to trees or posts near shrubs and 

 brush, from 6 to 15 feet above the ground, entrance 

 from 2 to 2| inches in diameter. Mr. J. W. Taylor of 



