An Available Supply of Moist Clay
will often induce the cliff-swallows to plant a colony in your neighborhood, and holes made in the gable ends of your stable will invite the social barn-swallow to build under the protecting roof.
Do not fail to keep fresh water, in shallow pans or earthenware dishes, on your lawn, for bird baths.
At my suggestion Samuel Jackson, my young brother-in-law, set out baths upon the lawn last summer, and the photograph [on the opposite page] is one which he took of a wild robin enjoying his free bath.
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