than forty rods; and it was impossible to say 

 how the g-rowing- young- were supplied with 

 moisture. 



Apparently, the motherled the young- away 

 from the nest, on finding- human visits quite 

 incessant. For this reason, and because of 

 the ever-growing- fear in the young- birds, it 

 became necessary to tether a couple of the 

 ridiculous thing-s for photographic purposes. 

 No inconvenience or hindrance seemed to re- 

 sult from this novel confinement. 



The accompanying- photog-raphs show one 

 of the birds at three weeks old,— the mature 

 feathers being at that time quite full g-rown. 

 The stake-like pose was incited by my 

 pointer, who came within some twenty feet 

 of the nest — though hardly in sig-ht — amid 

 his jncessant quest. None of the birds had 

 ever taken this pose before. Their only 

 g-reeting- to me, — and it had been a frequent 

 one, — ^was an open-beaked hissing, with all 

 the stridence of a watchman's rattle; no pos- 

 ing- in all that, — as most of my photog-raphic 

 studies testify. I fell to wondering, after I 

 had snapped the hundredth part of a second's 

 time upon that rig-id simulation, how that 

 three-vveek's-old baby knew that my pointer 



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