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box is that it may be so easily wedged in the fork 

 of a tree (see Plate iii.) and, to make quite 

 secure* in case of gales, a nail or two may be 

 used as well. 



Generally it may be said that almost any strong 

 rough boxes of the right sizes may be utilized for the 

 purpose of bird's nest boxes. One of my correspon- 

 dents states that he uses the cartridge boxes, which 

 are obtained from the gunmakers, for this purpose ; 

 those boxes containing one hundred cartridges 

 making good Tit boxes, and those containing two 

 hundred being large enough for Jackdaws, and if 

 covered with bark or virgin cork no doubt these 

 boxes will answer well. I have read of cigar boxes 

 being recommended as boxes for Tits, but I should 

 be much afraid that they are of too flimsy a character 

 to withstand the rain and gales. 



For the accommodation of the Spotted Flycatcher 

 {Muscicapa grisola), one of our most useful birds, 

 and whose favourite nesting places are perhaps a 

 ledge against a wall, a hinge of a door, a beam, a 

 branch against the trunk of a tree, or a hole in a 

 wall formed by the removal of the whole or part 

 of a brick, I recommend a little wooden bracket or 

 shelf placed in the angle of two walls under project- 

 incf eaves or in the recess of a window frame or 



