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BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 



Obviously the only manner in which photographs 

 of the Terns on their nests could be secured was to 

 conceal one's camera near the nest and retire, with a 

 tube or thread, to a distance of a hundred feet or 

 more. A nest was therefore selected about halfway 

 up the bank on the westerly side of the island, the 

 camera staked to the ground with long iron pins, 

 and completely covered with the dried seaweed 

 abundant on the beach below. I then attached a 



58. Tern alighting on nest. Same nest 



black linen thread to the shutter and retired about 

 one hundred feet to the top of the bank. Almost as 

 soon as I lay down the tumult overhead ceased, the 

 birds scattered, and the rasping te-a-r-r-r note of 



