Two Nova Scotia Photographs 



BY C. -WILL BEEBE 



With photographs from nature by the author. 



THE slate-colored Junco or Snowbird breeds very 

 abundantly in the fields of Digby county, Nova 



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Scotia, and its neat nests are often so artistically 

 placed that they are a continual temptation to the 

 naturalist photographer. One nest, in particular, 

 with four eggs, was especially beautiful, seen through 

 the ground glass of the camera, the contrast be- 

 tween the eggs and the waxy green leaves and 

 scarlet fruit of the bunch-berries near it making 

 one long for color photography. This nest was in a field, five feet 

 from a road, and partly protected by a tiny bank of turf. 



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Five days after the photograph was taken the eggs hatched, and 

 four balls of long, jet-black fuzz appeared. Daily twelve-hour meals 

 of green measuring-worms, provided by the parents, wrought marvels 

 in the appearance of the young birds, and in a surprisingly short 

 time a second suit of streaked black and brown was assumed. In 

 this, perhaps, the facsimile of their ancestors' plumage, they left the 



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