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Camera Craft Notes. 



Emu 

 ist July 



asked him to accompany us to the nesting haunt, they refused, 

 for the whole of one scorching afternoon, to have anything to do 

 with the enterprise. Their reputation, however, was fully 

 redeemed at the following week-end, by which time the eggs had 

 hatched. 



The Spotted Pardalote {Pardalotiis pttnctahis) is also much 

 harassed by us in our desire for pictures, but in this case the result 



Spotted Pardalote. 



is not such a foregone conclusion. Some attempts have proved 

 as unsatisfactory as if the subjects were very shy birds. A 

 favourite pair nests annually in the same burrow at Eltham. 

 Our methods of obtaining photographs are similar to those adopted 

 in the case of the Red-tipped species, except that we frequently 

 find it necessary to use a few feet of thread to release the shutter. 

 — S. A. Lawrence and R. T. Littlejohns. Melbourne, 3/6/16. 



The White-faced Ternlet. — Mud Island, Port Phillip Bay, 

 Victoria, i> noted chiefly for its rookeries of the White-faced 

 Storm-Petrel {Pelagodroina marina) ; but of equal interest, I 



