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Title: Bird notes and news
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: London, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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navigable rivers, 17 Wild Birds, Property in, 43. See Bird-catching, Inspectors, etc.Wild Birds Protection Act, 1908, 17, 25Wings in Millinery, 89. See Plume trade Yorkshire Bird Records, 60Young Naturalist, The, 11 NESTING-BOXES FOR BIRDS. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 23, Queen Annes Gate,London, S. W., has made arrangements for the supply of Nesting-Boxes for Wild Birds. The objectis to facilitate the provision in gardens, parks, and shrubberies of artificial nesting-places forcertain species of birds, and to provide patterns for the local and home manufacture of these. Figures A, B, E and F represent Boxes made on the plan recommended by Baron vonBerlepsch, and adopted generally in Germany, Austria, and other countries. Full descriptionof these Boxes and their use will be found in a book entitled How to Attract and ProtectWild Birds, recently translated into English; to be obtained of The Royal Society forthe Protection of Birds, price Is. 6d. (Post free, Is. 9d.)
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* Fig. A. 1/6 Fig. B. 2/ With brass hinges, 2/- These Prices do not includeCarriage. Fig. F. 1/6 Box A is suitable for the Great Tit, Blue Tit, Marsh-Tit, Coal-Tit, Crested Tit, Nuthatch,Tree-Creeper, Wryneck, Pied Fly-catcher, Redstart, or Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Box B is for Starlings, Greater Spotted Woodpeckers, Wrynecks, Nuthatches, PiedFly-catchers, Redstarts, Great Tits. The last five species settle in Box A as well as in B.The former suffices as a rule. For the sake of completeness we have Box E for Swifts, with the boring of Box B, anda semi-circular opening. The open Box F has a diameter of about 4^ inches, and a depth of about 2\ inches.It is made for such birds as Redstarts, Spotted Fly-catchers, and Pied Wagtails. All orders and other communications should be sent to the SOCIETYS OFFICE,33, Queen Annes date, London, 5.W., where Specimen Boxes may be seen. *A box someivhat similar to this patient, English made, with swing-lid, can also be had. It is catalogued as A 4. E

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