400 THE ZOOLOGIST. —. 
Some quotations given from Baron von Berlepsch are at the 
very root of the undertaking: ‘“‘ We can only preserve and in- 
crease our birds in the long run by restoring to them the neces- 
sary conditions of life—above all, the opportunities for nesting 
of which we have robbed them.” The Baron, after years of 
observation, had established the fact that the nesting-holes 
which the birds preferred were deserted or uninhabited Wood- 
pecker holes. This led him to conceive the idea of continuing 
the work of the Woodpecker by the hand of man—in other 
words, to make close imitations of the Woodpecker holes, and 
which should be exact copies of Nature. These nesting-boxes 
are well described and fully figured. There are also chapters on 
‘* Provision of Nesting-places for Birds breeding in the Open,” 
on the ‘‘ Feeding of Birds in Winter,” and on the ‘‘ Suppression 
of the Enemies of Birds.’”’ In the latter category the Squirrel 
and the Jay are fully convicted. 
The wide circulation of this or similar publications will in 
many cases do as much good as a prohibitive Act of Parlia- 
ment. 
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