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of care and patience I secured a number of 

 exposures with the camera only some six or 

 seven feet away from the bold little swimmers. 

 I also obtained a wetting. Through standing 

 so long in one place, I sank mid-thigh deep, and 

 one of my boots became so. obstinately fixed in 

 the mud and silt at the bottom of the loch that 

 I fell down, and was compelled to drag myself 

 ingloriously out on all fours. 



A strange thing about the phalaropes was that 

 they \N-ould swim much nearer the camera when 

 there was absolutely no inducement to do so 

 than they would when it was hxed up in front of 

 a nest with a clutch of half-incubatcd eggs in it. 



A MOORLAND BECK. 



