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BOY BIRD HOUSE ARCHITECTURE 



friendly birds and his presence should be en- 

 couraged about every farm, village, and sub- 

 urban residence. 



THE WOODPECKER. 



The woodpeckers are the true bird carpen- 

 ters and do a great amount of good in destroy- 

 ing harmful insects and boring worms. 



These birds are found most everywhere in 

 the United States, several species remaining 

 in the northern States throughout the year. 



Two of the best known woodpeckers, the 

 hairy woodpecker and the downy woodpecker, 

 range over a greater part of the United States. 



One of the larger woodpeckers familiar to 

 us all is the flicker, or golden winged wood- 

 pecker. 



Most all of the woodpeckers will adopt the 



artificial house, especially those hollowed out 

 of a split piece of limb. 



BIRD HOUSE MATERIAL. 



Great varieties of houses can be con- 

 structed of half inch lumber and can be made 

 very attractive to the eye. Other material, 

 however, can be utilized. 



The most natural Bird Homes, and such 

 as may often be provided with the least trou- 

 ble, are pieces of hollow limbs or small hollow 

 trunks of trees, or the old nesting holes of 

 woodpeckers. If no limbs with suitable cavi- 

 ties are found, they may be made by taking 

 a piece of a limb, about eight inches in diam- 

 eter and fourteen to sixteen inches long, divid- 

 ing it in half, with a rip saw, from one end to 

 within three inches of the other, where the 

 cut is met by a right-angle cut from the side. 



