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places, where the light was dim. Several nests were 

 discovered. Saucer-shaped, and composed of wire- 

 like rootlets and small twigs, they were placed in 

 tangled clumps of wire-grass, from three to six feet 



NEST AND EGGS OF COACHWH1P - BIRD. 



above the ground. The eggs (two form a full clutch), 

 sky-blue ground colour, with quaint scrawls and other 

 markings in sepia and gray, were lovely objects. De- 

 siring to obtain photographs of the birds themselves, 

 we marked down a nest which held two eggs, and 

 waited patiently for the time of nativity. At length 

 the eggs hatched, and a few days later the camera, 

 screened in boughs, was set up near the nest. The 



