36 NESTING BOXES, ETC. 



had made it little liked by the people, and that 

 they used to catch it on the eggs and kill it, as 

 they do Hawk Owls and Tengmalm's Owls." 



Mr. Sutton Davies remarks upon this that the 

 Hawk Owl, Tengmalm's Owl, Smew, Goosander, 

 and Red-breasted Merganser are all considered 

 more or less as intruders, and they frequently evict 

 the rightful owners from the nest boxes and take 

 up residence in them themselves. 



I have thought it well to give these interesting 

 observations made by Mr. Sutton Davies to show 

 what has been done, no doubt for generations, in 

 Swedish Lapland, in order to encourage birds of the 

 duck tribe to nest, although, of course, not so much 

 with the desire to protect these birds and their 

 broods, as to obtain their eggs for food. 



These careful observations show us how easily 

 even some of our rarest birds might be induced to 

 breed with us in suitable localities if appropriate 

 nest boxes were provided for their use. 



Tlien we read in the Second Series of those most 

 interesting " Essays on Natural History," by the 

 late Charles Waterton, of that safe Retreat and 

 Asylum for Wild Birds wliicli he so successfully 

 established in his Park at Walton in Yorkshire, and 



