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Fig. 61. BROODING THE LITTLE ONES. 



made from the tent, I being concealed in a bush about ten 

 feet away and making exposures by means of a long tube 

 to release the shutter. Several times he lit upon the camera 

 and once he swung upon the long rubber tube for several 

 seconds. I made quite a number of pictures of him but 

 many were failures because of the rapidity of his move- 

 ments. His mate was much more cautious in her manner 

 of approach, in fact she seemed to fear the camera more 

 than she had when I made her picture before, but after she 

 became acquainted with me she was very tame. The quar- 

 tet of youngsters were very bright. When they were a week 

 old, their curiosity was fully developed. They had just the 

 faintest suspicion of feathers on them, their almost bald 

 heads looking very comical as they hung them over 

 the edge of the nest and watched their parents foraging. 



