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Starling. — This European bird will soon be common and 

 may become a pest. It requires an entrance hole about 1| 

 inches in diameter, and cannot enter boxes properly made for 

 bluebirds or smaller birds. It will use any tenement suitable for 

 martins, flickers, crested flycatchers or sparrow hawks, such as 

 are described and figured hereafter. 



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Fig. 16. — Flicker box and details of construction. 



Crested Flycatcher. — Measurement of box actually occupied, 

 interior diameter, 6 by 6 by 8 inches. Long axis horizontal. 

 Entrance, 2 inches in diameter. (See Plate IV.) Mr. Henry 

 W. Stillings of Berea, Kentucky, gives the following dimen- 

 sions of two boxes in which this bird has nested there: No. 1, 

 8| inches long, 6| inches wide, 6 inches high; entrance diam- 

 eter, 2 inches; entrance, 4 inches above floor. No. 2, 10 inches 

 long, 4§ inches wide, 4 inches high; entrance diameter, 2| 

 inches; entrance, 1^ inches above floor. This bird has nested 

 in small bird houses, in boxes made of roofing felt, and also in 

 hollow log nesting boxes with the long axis vertical. 



Flicker. — Interior dimensions about 22 by about 6 by 4| 

 inches. (Boxes 12 to 18 inches deep have been used by flickers 

 in some cases.) Long axis vertical. Entrance hole at least 2^ 

 inches in diameter, near top. Several inches of ground cork or 



