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THE YOUNG TEN DAYS OLD. 
Light 5, Plate Speed 250, Subject number 100, Stop F8, Exposure 1-50sec. 
10.50 he paid another visit to the eyrie, and stood again in exactly 
the same attitude. Afterwards on developing the negatives I 
found that in the first his beak is all covered with down, which has 
nearly gone in the second. Now, in that of him shaking himself 
after the last meal the beak is quite clean, so that in the interval 
he must have had a meal by himself. At each of these visits he 
dropped into the eyrie and searched for dried scraps for the young, 
who were getting hungry. After he had gone one female routed 
out a pigeon’s leg, and pecked a long time at the pink claws as if 
attracted by the colour. Then her sister dispossessed her of it, 
and tried to swallow it in a hurry. She got it all down, claws first, 
but it would not stay down, so then she tried to peck it to bits, but 
happening to take her foot off it a young male, who had been 
