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proper size is a suitable nesting-place for the 



wood duck. A good, stout nail-keg with the head 



replaced, or a box a foot square and ten inches 



high, made of three-quarter-inch stuff, will be large 



enough. The oval entrance on the side should 



be six inches long by four inches wide. I know 



of a number of instances 



where wood ducks have 



nested in places pre- 



pared for them." Ernest 



Thompson Seton writes : 



" Wood ducks do not 



seem to desire being 



very near water. Wood 



ducks and whistlers like 



a drop of a foot or two 



from the entrance hole 



to the nest-level. They 



will not use a box in 



DUCK HougE 



which they can be seen 



while setting." The cut shows a box suggested 



by Dr. Fisher. 



House Finch. Mr. Frank Bond writes that 

 when living in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the house 

 finch was amongst the most common bird-box 

 occupants, when the English sparrows were killed 

 off. 



