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directly over the nest and shoot downwards to the top of the tree; 

 the other two continued and by watching with the glasses we found 

 that one alighted in a tree in the next pasture, while the other one 

 continued on out of sight. The two birds at what we called our 

 nest nearly always took turns in making these excursions and very 

 rarely did both of them leave the vicinity of the tree at the same time. 

 I had long since been familiar with the scared attitude of the incubat- 

 ing Cedar Bird upon being approached, but it remained for this pair of 

 birds to show me that they did not always sit in that uncomfortable 

 attitude. The photograph shown in Fig. 2 was made while the bird 

 was brooding her young and we were concealed back of the stone wall. 

 After making this picture, Fig. 3 was made immediately, it being nec- 

 essary to change the plate holder and reset the shutter, thereby 

 bringing the hand within less than four feet of the bird. Although her 

 appearance indicated great fear, she did not leave the nest even when I 

 made the exposure and made ready for another. It was only after a 

 long wait that both the birds came to the nest together. Nearly all 

 the time when the female was brooding the young, the male sat on a 

 limb in the shade and only a little back of the nest. At one time the 



Fig. 7. 



Photo*' from- life. 



