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and was off again. This time she was gone twelve min- 

 utes, and when she returned we were again baffled in 

 our effort to see what she was carrying. When she came 

 out she ahghted upon a leaf and attended to her toilet, 

 cleaning both body and wings by rubbing them off with 

 her hind legs, and from this time on she never started on 

 a hunting expedition without paying 

 this attention to her personal ap- 

 pearance. On her third trip she was 

 gone twenty minutes, coming back 

 with a small fly; and before we left 

 her at ten o'clock, she had stored six 

 more. When we came back at half 

 past two in the afternoon she was 

 working, and she kept up her go- 

 ings and comings until four o'clock, 

 when she suspended operations for 

 the day. On the next morning we 

 were called away, and know nothing 

 of what she did, but on the follow- 

 ing day, Thursday, we resumed our 

 observations. She worked hard all the morning, but 

 in the afternoon her trips were few, and were made 

 at long intervals. On Friday she worked from eight 

 to nine, when she departed, and never returned. We 



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