WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



reflectively for a moment, then waddled off. Evidently 

 he was in no mind to do me any harm. 



Whilst we were having breakfast a bird of about 

 the size of a jay, and very similar to it, except that 

 it was grey, flew down noiselessly and actually took 

 a piece of bacon out of the frying-pan. Randall 

 explained that it was a " Clarke's Camp-robber," 

 named after Clarke, one of the early explorers. 

 Curiously enough, the species is found nowhere else 

 but in the Yellowstone Park. I tried hard to get some 

 animated pictures of Camp-robbers, but had no success, 

 they were too quick for me. It was just a matter of a 

 rapid dive down from a branch, a snatch at whatever 

 they coveted, and then they were gone in a flash. The 

 weird part of it was that they made no audible sound 

 either with their throats or their wings. 



We were just preparing to pack up our gear, 

 when one of the party from a camp where we had 

 spent the previous evening came over to tell us that 

 a she-bear and her cub were hanging round their 

 " outfit." The opportunity seemed too good to be 

 missed, so I hurried across with my camera. When 

 I arrived at the other camp I could see no sign of 

 the animals, so sat down on a log to wait, in case they 

 should reappear. After about an hour my patience was 

 rewarded. I heard a shuffling on the path and, looking 

 round, saw a bear coming down, probably with the 

 idea of searching for any refuse the tourists might have 



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