JIM’S BABIES 
with the Camera, who had climbed to inspect 
it, was the perfection of good workmanship, 
and was lined with a thick mat of cow-hair 
padded down to 
a hemisphere. 
We had sup- 
posed it to be 
much flatter and 
less deep than 
the examination 
revealed. In it 
were laid five 
pointed olive- 
green eggs, spot- 
ted with black. 
They were ar- 
ranged ina circle 
with points to- 
Olive-green eggs spotted with black 
ward the centre. 
The mother bird was extremely shy, and 
left the nest before the intruding climber had 
reached the first crotch, and all efforts to 
obtain a good photograph of her failed. She 
was never away long, and on returning in- 
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