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hard at it for about five minutes, after which he came to the front 
of the eyrie and vomited three or four times, each time ejecting a 
pellet of red flesh the shape of a casting, so that there was evidently 
something they did not like about that blackbird. Soon after 
this meal I found the Falcon standing on one of the rocks at the 
edge of the cliff, all draggled, evidently after a bath. She stood 
Male. Female. Male. Female. 
YOUNG TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS OLD. 
Light 3, Plate speed 229, Subject number 100, Stop F11, Exposure 1-40sec. 
there for three-quarters of an hour performing her toilet and after- 
wards standing on guard. Later on she flopped on to A and, walk- 
ing along it, peered down into the eyrie where her young were 
preening themselves, unconscious of her presence. She had such 
a marked expression of maternal solicitude that I was tempted to 
take her, but refrained because her head was in shadow. Then 
