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was being shoved into a widely opened mouth. Pres- 

 ently another gleam, just in time to catch on the plate 

 the offer of a great fat worm. For about an hour there 

 were intervals of sunshine, during which feeding was 

 in active operation, and shooting, too! I fired away 

 with that camera till it was, metaphorically, red-hot 

 and when the dark leaden pall shut in again over the 

 sky before the shower broke, I went away rejoicing, 

 leaving the devoted and deluded vireo still cramming 

 the insatiable maws of those murderers of her own 

 offspring. 



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