25 



In a neighbouring barn is a colony of over 100 nests of house- 

 martins. 



In the " shelter- woods " and in the poplar and willow avenues we 

 find the same kind of birds as in the park, but in far greater numbers, 

 and in addition : 



Green woodpeckers. 



Great and lesser spotted woodpeckers. 



Woodchat shrikes (Lanius senator}. 



Blue-headed wagtails (Motacilla flaw). 



Wheatears. 



Whinchats and stonechats. 



Tree-pipits. 



Corn-buntings and reed-buntings. 



Blue- throats (Eriihacus cyaneculus), and also nightingales 



(Erithacus luscinia). 



In the woods, on an average, 90 per cent, of the 2,000 nesting-boxes 

 are inhabited by the five species of tits great tit, blue tit, marsh-tit, 

 coal-tit, crested tit green woodpecker, grey woodpecker (Picus 

 viridicanus], greater and middle spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus 

 medius], nuthatches, tree-creepers, pied fly-catchers, redstarts, and 

 starlings. The boxes for the birds building in open cavities are 

 inhabited by robins and wrens, and in the neighbourhood of the game- 

 keeper's house by wagtails, black redstarts, and spotted fly-catchers. 



Such results force us to acknowledge that the measures which 

 have produced them are the only right ones, and we must agree with 

 the remark that " these are conditions that undoubtedly remind us* 

 more of an aviary than of nature." 



Baron von Berlepsch, as was stated above, looks on these extensive 

 grounds as an experimental station in the first place, but he has also 

 laid them out as a pattern station, which is at all times open to the 

 inspection of those who come to see it, and it is in this light that he 

 wishes it to be regarded. 



(B) Central Stations for Bird-Protection authorized by the State. 



The events of 1908 form an important landmark in the history 

 of the development of experimental stations and the efforts for 

 protecting birds. The experimental and model station for bird 



