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if they would be likely to require any more 

 ducks out of our next brood. 



]\Ir. Waterton set also an admirable example 

 in providing liouse accommodation for many 

 sorts of birds, whicli have great trouble in find- 

 ing suitable habitations. He may be said to 

 have originated the plan of making model 

 lodging-houses for owls, starhngs, &c. &c. 



He is imitated by Mr. A. Ellis, who states that 

 he fitted up chambers artificially in the hole of 

 a hollow elm-tree, and that a kestrel, a stock- 

 dove, and two pairs of starlings all hatched ofi* 

 their young in this one chamber. Surely this 

 old tree must be an interesting object to anyone 

 fond of natural history. 



The Eev. Mr. Morris saw at Walton Hall 

 another hollow tree in which a pair of owls, a 

 pair of jackdaws, and a pair of redstarts bred, 

 and all these birds entered by one hole. We 

 should like to see these model lodging-houses 

 common on every estate. They would soon 

 find tenants, for old and useless trees are so 



