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graphing the members of a small colony, consist- 

 ing of three or four pairs. The different couples 

 appeared to have their own favourite pools and 

 shallows, which they diligently hunted morning, 

 noon, and night for food. They swam along very 

 hurriedly, looking from side to side in busy, 

 eager haste, pecking here and there as if there 

 was not a moment to be lost and the welfare of 

 the whole universe depended upon their exertions. 

 I obtained a beautiful series of photographs 

 of both males and females by focussing some 

 particular part of the surface of a favourite pool, 

 and then standing on one side with my pneumatic 

 tube and waiting unti] a bird swam across it. 

 One day, a couple 

 of schoolboys volun- 

 teered to help me, 

 by driving the pha- 

 laropes within my 

 field of focus, and 

 by this novel sport- 

 ing method enabled 

 me to expose several 

 plates. On the follow- 

 ing day I was all 

 alone, and the birds 

 seemed to have been 

 so used to my ap- 

 paratus, that by dint PHALAROPE . 



