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Pictures of Bird Life 



Purple Heron {Ardea purpurea), automatically photographed by the 

 Bird itself treading on an Electric Trap connected with Hidden 

 Camera. 



Presently the rising of several Spoonbills from the reeds 

 shows that their nesting-plaee is not far away ; and as the 

 punt leaves the ehannel, and is foreed throiioh the tliiek reed- 

 bed. Spoonbills are getting np all around us in every direction. 

 Presently, after niueh exertion, the first nest becomes visible 

 through the reeds. 



On a large and bulky platform of sticks and dead reeds 

 we can make out three nearly Hedged young birds standing 

 up. T'nfortimately, howc\'er, the noise necessarily made in 

 forcing our clumsy craft along has alarmed them so nuicli 

 that two out of the three, after hesitating on tlie brink, 

 .scramble out, and, plunging through the water, finally dis- 



