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which I could get barely 3 ft. distance from the bird. The camera | 
had was the old Kodak No. 3 of which the smallest aperture was 
equivalent to F. 32. After endless trouble | managed to prop the 
camera rigidly on the ledge. But every attempt to look into the 
finder was frustrated by some particularly hard projecting rocks 
against which | knocked my head in vain. So I had to content 
myself with laying my camera on the object by rule of thumb and, 
YOUNG BEARDED VULTURE. 
vaph taken with magnifier at 24 tn, di 
pressing the lever, gave a 4o seconds exposure. The whole thing 
seemed so hopeless and uncertain that I decided not to risk wasting 
any more films in this manner. 
Before setting to work with the magnifiers | turned the camera 
slightly so as to take in the front part of the nest and the profile of 
the face of the cliff on the far side of the cavern. It was well that 
I did so, for on my return to England | was enabled to join these 
