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Bird- Lore 



Evening GROSBEAK.-Eight birds were 

 in Norwalk from March 8 to 13, 1916. 

 They were seen by many and were feeding 

 on hacmatack berries. 



Lawrence's WAEBLER.-On May 12, 

 1916, a male was observed at Waterbury, 

 and on May 20, another male was found 

 at Wilton. It was feeding near the ground 

 in willows and was very tame. A party of 

 fifteen people watched it as long as they 

 cared to do so at a very close range. Be- 

 lieving it to be a migrant, no effort was 

 made to watch it further, but Mr. Edward 

 Godfrey, one of the original party, passing 

 the place in June found a Lawrence War- 

 bler feeding young in the same field where 

 we found this one on May 20, and it may 

 have been the same bird. 



MocKiNGBiRD.-One lived about the 

 residential section of Bridgeport all last 

 winter, and I photographed it on March 

 21 in its haunts. 



'Acadian' CnicxADEE.-One found by 

 one Abbot, identified by Mark Candee, 

 and showed to me on January 11, 1917, 

 has been in the same locality since and 

 was seen by many people on January 18, 

 1916. — Wilbur F. Smith, South Norwalk, 

 Conn. 



The Wellesley Bird-Box 



Many people would take greater interest 

 in encouraging the native birds if most of 

 the equipment now to be had on the mar- 

 ket were not quite so expensive. Simple 

 forms of feeders and bird-boxes seem to 

 be quite as efficient as the more elaborate. 



If in any community it is desired to 

 introduce a large number of bird-boxes at 

 low cost it is only necessary to settle on 

 some simple design and have them made 

 at the nearest box (packing-box) factory. 



The plan can be carried out by an indi- 



THE WELLESLEY BIRD - BOX 



Dimensions of stock, top, s x 6K inches; front and back, each 5x 7>2 inches; sides, ^.x-jyi inches; 

 bottom, 4x4 inches. The box is put together with iX-inch galvanized box nails. The roofing-paper and 

 entrance guard fastened with K-inch galvanized tacks. The top of the box is removable, but is held in 

 position by a piece of galvanized No. 16 soft iron wire looped over a tack on each side. Two holes about 

 one inch apart are bored in the upper part of the box in a downward direction from the inside so that 

 when the cover is ofif, the box can be nailed to a post or tree with 2j^-inch galvanized wire nails. To be 

 stained any dull neutral shade. 



