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WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. 



of whose capture will be related when I come 

 to deal with our visit to Soa. My brother fixed 

 up his camera and focussed the corner of an ad- 

 vantageously-situated crag, and when he had got 

 his plate in and all ready, I quietly placed the 

 bird upon it and kept my hands over the little 



NEST OF ST. KILDA WREN. 



creature until he was composed, then counting one, 

 two, for my brother's signal, I swiftly withdrew. 

 The pneumatic tube was instantly pressed, and the 

 photograph, from which the accompanying picture 

 has been made, was taken. 



Every Wren's nest we found, or had shown to 

 us, was located inside a cleit; and, as may well be 



