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BIRD FRIENDS 



OPEN SHELTERS 



A shelter with the front and two ends open may 

 be placed where robins and phoebes naturally nest, 

 and sometimes simple shelves placed in appropriate 

 situations are used by these birds. 



A shelter with the front and one side open, if 

 placed under the eaves of a barn, may be occupied 

 by barn swallows. 



Some of the important points to consider in the 

 building of a box for a particular bird are given for 

 convenience in the accompanying tabular form, 

 which is taken, with some changes, from Farmer's 

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

 Them." These are arranged in the order of the size 

 of the entrance, the smallest first. 



