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IN AUSTRALIAN WILDS 



photographer, early one morning, focussed on the nest, 

 made other necessary preparations, and went into hid- 

 ing. One hand held a bulb at the end of fifteen feet 

 of rubber tubing, connected with the camera shutter. 



COACHWHIP- BIRD AT NEST. 



Hour after hour he remained in a cramped position, 

 gasping in the humid atmosphere and tortured by 

 mosquitoes. The female Coachwhip-Bird soon re- 

 turned with food for her young, but she was sus- 

 picious, and for long refused to come within range of 

 the lens. She feared the "eye," which stared from 

 the centre of an unnatural bush. But the chicks were 

 hungry and clamoured for food. At the end of the 



