48 METHODS OF ATTRACTING BIRDS 



"The Bewick's wrens will place their nest in 

 many kinds of places, and it is very easy to get 

 them to breed near the house, or if they can get 

 in, they will build in the house. Quart tin cans 

 tacked up in some out-building where they can 

 get in are very agreeable to them, and they will 

 place their nest therein and be perfectly at home. 

 I have one in my barn where they rear two broods 

 each year when not molested. They will use 

 any kind of a bird-house placed in almost any 

 location, excepting too high up. They are very 

 easily suited, and all they need is a little protec- 

 tion." 



Mr. Harry C. Oberholser writes that in the West 

 the Texas Bewick's wren readily adopts artificial 

 houses. 



The author has been able to find no other 

 records of birds using artificial houses than those 

 previously discussed, butafewgeneral suggestions 

 are given for houses to attract some other birds, 

 which it would seem might eventually be induced 

 to occupy them. 



Woodpeckers. — The author has not been able 

 to find any records in this country of nesting- 

 houses being occupied by woodpeckers, excepting 

 the flicker and the red-headed woodpecker, al- 

 though these are the birds par excellence of hoi- 



