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her an opportunity to assume her new respon- 

 sibility without unnecessary annoyance. On 

 his return the following morning he found her 



The Naturalist decided to take the nest to his study, and see what he could do 

 toward raising the orphans by hand. 



with her head in a cell. She came out with an 

 egg in her jaws, which she ate. An examina- 

 tion showed that she had disposed of some of 

 the larvae in a similar manner. Since the 

 Naturalist could ill afford to have his observa- 

 tion interrupted in any such cannibalistic man- 

 ner as that, he decided to take the nest to his 



