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is extended to a surprising degree and is already in motion, as is shown 

 by the failure of the lens to record the outer primaries while securing, 

 with some detail, an outline of the secondaries. Indeed, the evidently 

 much higher speed with which the primaries were being moved, together 





FLICKER LEAVING NEST-HOLE 



with the space shown in the picture between the outermost secondary 

 and innermost primary, suggest the possibility of an independent move- 

 ment of the distal portion of the wing. A close examination of the 

 negative shows that the outer primaries are spread out fan -like to such 

 an extent as to be in contact only at their bases. Profiting by experi- 

 ence, this bird subsequently left her tree before one could approach near 

 enough to plant a camera. 



The following morning was devoted to securing the picture of a 

 Scarlet Tanager, whose home had been discovered by a good type of 

 the all-seeing farmer's boy. Neither conditions of location, site, or light 

 were favorable, and after the camera had been fastened in the apple tree 

 which the birds had selected for a home, it was found necessary to build 

 a blind of bushes beneath a neighboring tree, whence the photographer 

 could not see his subject. From a distance, therefore, with the aid of 

 a glass, Mr. Burroughs kept watch and gave word when the exposure 

 was to be made. The results, with one exception, demonstrated that 

 the photographer's point of view is not always his camera's, only one 



