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tie trill that tliest- flycatchers often make when they are 

 pleased with themselves or their surroundings. 



In due course of time the eggs hatched. When the young 

 were ten days old we made our first }3hotographs. The nest 



Fig. 56. The food ivafs quickUj thruat far down the throat of 

 the hungrij bird-baby. 



was about ten feet from the ground, but we pulled the limb 

 down and tied it so that their home was only eight feet up. 

 We then backed a large covered wagon up close to the nest 

 and from within made quite a series of pictures. The little 

 motlier was brooding the young as we backed the wagon up 

 and, although so large an object coming so close must have 

 friglitened her, she stayed "aboard" the nest until we 

 climbed into the wagon and began setting up the cameras 

 within three feet of her. 



We soon had everything concealed, except the lenses, by 

 large blankets, and the little mother bird paid no more at- 



