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Bluebird. 

 A few nesting boxes and a row of stakes about 5 feet high 

 and 3 rods apart, driven across an open grass field or meadow, 

 make homes and watch towers for the warbling bluebird, from 

 which it makes short sallies into the grass for insect pests. 

 Professor C. F. Hodge taught bluebirds to come into his study 

 by feeding them meal worms. In autumn they are attracted 

 to dwellings by berries of the Virginia creeper, or woodbine, 

 and those of the matrimony vine. Bluebirds are learning to eat 

 Japanese barberries in early spring. ]\Jrs. ]\Jary R. Stanley 

 reports that some at that season ate very small crumbs of 

 suet from an old rug spread on the ground, and readily found 

 such crumbs when placed in a box similar to a nesting box 

 fastened on a tree. They would not eat larger crumbs, such as 

 robins swallow. 



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