NESTING-HOUSES 



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proper size is a suitable nesting-place for the 

 ■wood duck. A good, stout nail-keg with the head 

 replaced, or a box a foot square and ten inches 

 high, made of three-quarter-inch stuff, will be large 

 enough. The oval entrance on the side should 

 be six inches long by four inches wide. I know 

 of a number of instances 

 where wood ducks have 

 nested in places pre- 

 pared for them." Ernest 

 Thompson Seton writes : 

 " Wood ducks do not 

 seem to desire being 

 very near water. Wood 

 ducks and whistlers like 

 a drop of a foot or two 

 from the entrance hole 

 to the nest-level. They 

 will not use a box in 

 which they can be seen 

 while setting." The cut shows a box suggested 

 by Dr. Fisher. 



WOOD DUCK HOUSE 



House Finch. — Mr. Frank Bond writes that 

 when living in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the house 

 finch was amongst the most common bird-box 

 occupants, when the English sparrows were killed 

 off. 



