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 In the avenue the best way of treating taU trees and willows for 

 the same purpose is demonstrated, and the wood, which is fully six 

 miles distant from the plantations just described, contains over 

 2,000 nesting-boxes. As there is no open water within reach for a very 

 great distance, drinking places for the birds have been planned, 

 although the want of water has made no difference in the number of 

 birds, " A striking proof that the birds, though undoubtedly they 

 love water, can do without it where there are heavy showers." 



THE LAKE. 



Whoever, like the author, has been able to observe the birds at 

 Seebach at aU seasons of the year must acknowledge that the experi- 

 mental station there serves as a pattern and a model for all similar 

 places. The success attained in every part of the experimental station 

 is, to say the least, extraordinary. 



In the home park alone, which covers 12 or 13 acres, and is 

 supplied to a certain extent only by the neighbouring shelter-woods, 

 there breed, according to the reports of 1906, at least — 



