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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 flava), 



Wheatears. 



'W'hiinchats and stonechats. 



Tree-pipits. 



Corn-buntings and reed-buntings. 



Blue- throats (Erithacus 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 sJDecies of tits — great tit, blue tit, marsh-tit, 

 coal-tit, crested tit — green woodpecker, grey woodpecker {Pirns 

 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 \i'hich 

 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- 

 protection at Seebach belonging to Baron von Berlepsch was raised 

 by the State to a central station for the protection of birds. 



