ON LONELY BIRD KEY 



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Really, it is hard to tell when to stop this photography ! I 

 am sure if I were to remain on Bird Key the livelong season, 

 I should find something new to photograph every day, as 

 long as the plates lasted. During my four days' stay I man- 

 aged to keep my enthusiasm under some sort of control, and 

 only exposed 156 plates ! 



Thus the days all too quickly passed, and when, before 

 sunrise on Saturday morning, my friend the guide rowed me 

 across to the fort to take the steamer and start on my long 

 trip back to Connecticut, I felt that I was leaving a land 

 of sunshine and exhilarating delights when, from the deck of 

 the steamer, I saw fade in the distance the sands and bushes 

 of lonely Bird Key. 



SOOTY TERN. "WITH RATHER LONG, POINTED WINGS " 



