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Fig. 8. Nest of Ptarmigan. (Orkedal.) 



American ornithologists have frequently obtained fine photographs of 

 a number of our game birds while they were sitting upon their eggs, 

 as grouse, quail and woodcock, and several of these I have published in 

 former articles. 



