DECEIVING WILD CREATURES. 



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but he heard me, and, running away, commenced 

 to call loudly to his mate for what subsequently 

 turned out to be a change of places. 



When the female arrived upon the scene, she 

 proved to be an exceedingly shy and wary fowl, 

 walking round and round, back and forth, calling 

 to her young ones ah the time, but never once 

 venturing to sit down and cover them. I man- 

 aged, through a fortunate improvement in the 

 weather, to secure one snapshot of her, and then 

 abandoned ah further effort, having knelt for 

 two and a half hours, with water dripping steadily 

 down the back of 

 my neck from the 

 roof sods of the 

 emergency hide- 

 up. The chicks 

 were soon strone: 

 enough to leave 

 the nest, and I 

 photographed one 

 of them directly it 

 had done so. 



On rare occa- 

 sions the natural- 

 ist photographer 

 is favoured by 

 circumstances in 

 the matter of 



YOUNG GOLDEN PLOVER. 



