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The Yellow-throat finally concluded that it was useless 

 to threaten, persuade or reason with such a young one and 

 started searching for something with which to quiet it. He 

 finally brought a green worm and, with many misgivings 

 and false starts, hopped out on the branch where the large 

 baby-bird stood flapping his wings and coaxing. Birds can 

 move very quickly but I have never seen one jump as sud- 

 denly as Yellow-throat did when the shutter clicked. Be- 

 fore the picture was taken, which happened in one one- 

 hundredth part of a second, lie had made a complete beat 

 of his wings as is clearly shown in the photograph. As 

 no harm had come to him at the first shot, he was not as 

 wary when he approached the second time, and I secured 

 him on the plate without motion. 



For a month afterward, that little Cowbird was still de- 

 pending upon its small step-father, following him every- 

 where, alwaj's fluttering its wings and begging for more, 

 more, more. 



Pig. 1.59. NEST OF RED-EYED VIREO. 



