AMERICAN ORNITHOL OGY. 



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rocks. The ledge below the hole was only eighteen inches wide so the 

 camera had to be set right at the mouth of the hole, showing only one 

 side. 



Could the camera have been set a little farther back the entrance to the 

 nest could have been shown. In the photograph of the cliff, the streak 

 near the bottom is the narrow ledge and the hole with the nest is the one 

 nearest the center of the picture. This photo was made from a rock stand- 

 ing about forty feet from the cliff containing the egg. The cliff faces the 

 west or north-west and is several hundred feet high. The photo was made 

 at 2 p. m. and was a very hazardous undertaking. 



The large photo of the egg was made outside of the nest and is the same 

 size as the egg. It is rarely that a nest is found where a photo can be 

 made that will show the egg, and most photos of this kind are made 

 by placing the egg in a hole in the rock' that is accessable to the camera. 

 It is not so in this case as the egg was found in the rock as shown. 



Photo by W. D. WOOD. 



VULTURE'S EGG IN CAVE. 



The eggs are laid in Feb. or March, and by May the young birds are 

 well grown. One which was captured April 24, measured twenty -four 

 in. from point to point of its wings. If they are not disturbed they will 

 nest in the same place year after year. A young bird was taken from a 



