AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



this, with the lens about twenty-four inches from the nest hole. Owing 

 to the location of the branch I was wholly unable to focus the camera 

 from in front, as I was in my own light. I was thankful that there was 

 no one to see or possibly photograph my maneuvers before I finally got 

 to the rear end of the camera where I could see the image on the ground 

 glass. As the camera was so close to the object, I stopped it down to 

 32 and took the pictures with an exposure of a hundredth part of sec- 

 ond. This short exposure under the conditions was only possible be- 

 cause I had the bright sunlight reinforced by the reflection from the mir- 

 ror. 



In a previous number I have mentioned the little Chestnut-sided 

 Warbler shown in Fig. 3. She was very tame and I had the camera set 

 up in front of her home and focused on her before she left the nest. 



Fig-?. Photo from life. 



MADAM GROSBEAK. 

 I doubt if she would have left the nest then, but the tripod leg slip- 

 ped and she thought that the whole outfit was coming over on her. As 

 she seemed so little afraid I did not hitch on the long tube, but waited 

 until she had returned to the nest and then carefully walked up to the 

 camera. As I approached, she became very nervous and several times 

 rose to her feet and spread her wings as though going to leave. Her 

 courage was good, however, and she allowed me to reach the bulb and 

 make the exposure, after which I removed the camera and left her in 

 peace still sitting on her four small eggs. As the lens was only about 

 twenty inches from her and to reach the bulb my hand had to come to 

 within about the same distance, you can imagine that she was a brave 

 little bird. 



