NESTLINGS OF FOREST AND MARSH 
A week later there were four eggs in the 
rude nest, so polished and transparent that 
they looked like pearls. We did not inves- 
tigate again until two weeks later, when we 
Squirming flicker babies, two days old 
found six young flickers, featherless and 
squirming. The heat in the flicker’s home 
was so much greater than that outside that 
curiosity prompted the insertion of a ther- 
mometer. It immediately rose to 104°, 
the outside temperature being 96°. The 
Man with the Camera resolved to render at 
least two of those newly-hatched flickers 
immortal as being the homeliest of all babies. 
Their bodies were as round and of the same 
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