A MERICAN OR NITHOL OGY. 



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they also freqently got pieces of grass with them and did not bother to 

 separate the two. On the twelfth day after the eggs had hatched, I 

 again visited the nest and found it empty. The adult birds were pres- 

 ent and considerably excited, so I was certain that the young were 

 close by. By carefully watching, two of the little ones were found and 

 captured. The camera was now carefully focussed on a branch and we 

 were ready to take their pictures. They w^ere not ready however, and 

 for the next half hour we had a very busy session. Both adult birds 

 were all the time fluttering about in the grass at our feet and calling 

 for their little ones to fly from the branch whenever we placed them 

 upon it. They were very obedient children and promptly minded their 

 parents. Sometimes they would fly off, sometimes hop off and again 

 fall off, but get off the branch they would and did, and as they had had 

 a day's practice they could make quite extended flights. We did finally 

 succeed in inducing them to pose for a fractional part of a second and 

 the results were satisfactory to all parties as we had the pictures and 

 they had their liberty. 



Photo by Geo. C. Embody 



NEST OF FIELD SPARROW 



