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 make an exposure with impunity, and when at 

 length I was satisfied with the studies of her sitting 

 on the nest and was wishful that she should go, I 

 purposely made a noise by tapping on the ground- 

 glass. It was a sound new to her, and she listened 

 intently, enquiringly in fact, but without a sugges- 

 tion of alarm. I tapped louder and yet more 

 loudly, but her interest in the sound was waning 

 and she dozed. I ran my finger nail along the 

 bellows of the camera, making a rattling noise ; 

 this attracted her for a moment and she put her 

 head on one side to listen, but that was all and 

 soon she dozed again. I snapped a metal match- 

 box, and, in short, made all manner of noises, 

 but to no purpose, for after a time she did not even 

 deign to notice them, and yet this was the same 

 bird which a few days before had started violently 

 if I attempted to alter the position of one leg 

 although then more than three times as far away. 

 Determined that she should go, as I wished for 

 pictures of her returning to the nest and settling 

 down upon the eggs, I spoke, and at that she 

 turned her head enquiringly. I spoke louder 

 and more sharply, but again the novelty of the 

 sound was going and her eye relaxed. At last, 

 hardly realizing what I did, I shouted loudly, and 

 peering through a peep-hole in the tent, to my 

 astonishment could see her contentedly sitting on 



