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sounds made in the manipulation of my two cameras were 

 barely audible even to my ears. With the wind in the right 

 quarter, this honking chorus could be plainly heard at our 

 camp. The adults uttered three distinct calls, all goose- 

 like in character. The usual note of the young bird is a 

 whistling crow. 



Brooding and Feeding 



The birds of this portion of the rookery had evidently 

 begun to nest at an earlier date than those in the section 

 before visited. Many of the nests contained an egg from 

 which the chick was emerging, and in others were young 

 evidently several days old ; while birds which had left the 

 nest were running about with their parents. 



On leaving the shell, and before the plumage was dry, 

 some chicks had sufficient strength to respond to their evi- 

 dently instinctive sense of fear. At my approach they 

 crawled to the edge of the nest and dropped over to the 

 ground or water below, though beyond this they could pro- 

 gress but little. Chicks a day old jumped nimbly from the 



