52 METHODS OP ATTRACTING BIRDS 



placed out for them, that it would seem that they 

 might be induced to remain and nest. In order to 

 make the house as attractive as possible, one ■will 

 probably stand a better chance of success if 

 hollow limbs or bark houses are used, a foot or 

 more in length and five to six inches in diameter, 

 with an entrance hole of about one and a half 

 inches for the white-breasted and one inch for 

 the red-breasted. To find the most attractive lo- 

 cation, the house may be attached to a tree in an 

 orchard or woods. The best way to attract these 

 birds, and also woodpeckers, is to leave standing 

 old trees which ha.ve hollows in them suitable for 

 nesting-sites. Mr. Forbush writes that a pair of 

 mated red-breasts at his house were looking for 

 a nest in the house, and the female crept into a 

 partly raised window upstairs and fluttered herself 

 to death. 



Carolina Wren. — The author has not been 

 able to find any record of this bird using a nest- 

 ing-box, but from the nature of the localities 

 which it selects for its nesting-sites there seems 

 little doubt that it might easily be induced to do so. 

 Following are the locations in which it has been 

 reported as nesting : in a broken gourd thrown 

 on an arbor of a grape-vine ; in a wash-basin left 

 on a mantel of an abandoned negro cabin; 



