Identifier: birdlore71905nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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OBSERVATION BOX, CLOSED OBSERVATION BOX, OPEN sitting at the open window can watch the young birds as they are fed, notetheir growth and development, the character and amount of their food, thenest-cleaning and all their household afifairs. The old birds were first at-tracted to the windows by feeding them there. Then they found the boxa good place for shelter, and finally nested in it. They are good neighbors,attending to their own business and. as unpaid laborers in our fruit treesand woodland, their work of clearing insects from the premises is of theutmost value.
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A PAGE OF NEST-BOX SUGGESTIONSFrom the Cornell Nature Study Bureau. Courtesy of Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock (lo) On the Construction of Houses for the Purple Martin By J. WARREN JACOBS Illustrated by the author IT is a task for me to give plans and describe the manner of constructinghouses for Purple Martins. This is not because I have lacked experiencein building these houses, but because in making a score or more ofMartin homes, I have followed no set plan or rule, except to have therooms a certain size, the entrances to the same of proper dimensions, andthe whole, when finished, to have the appearance of a miniature residenceor other building. Before commencing on a bird-house, I had firmly fixed in my mind aboutwhat I wanted to do, and could fairly well picture how the house wouldlook when completed. With my head for a guide, and a well-equipped kitof wood-working tools, I went to work on a house, which, when com-pleted, was a well-proportioned, miniature building, bearing close i

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