214 PROPAGATION OF WILD BIRDS 



Apparatus for Sale. For those who do not care to make 

 their own nesting-boxes, or other apparatus, the following 

 list of manufacturers is offered: The Audubon Bird House 

 Company, Meriden, N. H. ; Philip E. Perry, 39 Clarke Street, 

 Lexington, Mass.; E. C. Ware, Wareham, Mass.; The Sim- 

 plex Bird Apparatus Company, Demarest, N. J. ; Maple- 

 wood Biological Laboratory, Stamford, Conn. ; Greenwich 

 Bird Protective Society, Greenwich, Conn. ; Winthrop Pack- 

 ard, Canton, Mass.; J. Warren Jacobs, Waynesburg, Pa.; 

 Charles E.White, Kenilworth, 111. ; Joseph H. Dodson, Evans- 

 ton, 111. Besides nesting-boxes, these firms can mostly 

 supply the various devices for feeding or protecting all 

 birds. 



Species to Expect. It will be of interest and importance 

 to know what kinds of birds are to be considered possible 

 occupants of nesting-boxes. This will vary, of course, with 

 the locality, whether certain species are found there or not. 

 The following twenty-seven species are listed in Farmers' 

 Bulletin, No. 609, "Bird Houses and How to Build Them," 

 issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. I will 

 classify them as follows : 



(a) Species regularly using nesting-boxes: house wren 

 (the various sub-species), bluebird (Eastern and Western 

 varieties), chickadee, purple martin, tree swallow, flicker, 

 violet-green swallow (Western), house finch (Western), 

 Bewick's wren (Western). 



(b) Species occasionally using boxes: white-breasted 

 nuthatch, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker (rarely), 

 red-headed woodpecker, tufted titmouse, Carolina wren, 

 crested flycatcher, screech owl, saw-whet owl, barn owl, 

 sparrow hawk, wood duck, song sparrow (rarely), dipper 

 (Western). 



(c) Species using covered shelves, open on sides: robin, 



