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tlie camera shutter from a distance of three hundred feet. 

 I got the pictures but it was an unusual amount of trouble 

 to do so, especially for such common birds as Robins. The 

 different temperaments of diiferent birds of the same spe- 

 cies is emphasized by the fact that I have since taken Robin 

 pictures with no concealment, from a distance of less than 

 six feet. 



Fig. 94. THE XEST OX THE BLIND. 



Most normal Robins place their rudely constructed mud- 

 and-grass houses in trees at heights of from six to twentv 

 feet from the ground. Of course there are eccentric Robins, 

 as well as persons, and some of these depart from the usual 

 customs of their kind. We sometimes see their nests in the 

 upper branches of elms, fully sixty feet up ; I have also 

 found them built among roots under overhanging banks. 



