288 HOMING WITH TIIK BIliDS 



Ned of Icing rail, in wJiich bird wan bruudiny when picture 

 was taken 



old birds hover, and tliey even follow llie young 

 afield and feed them until they look as large as 

 tlieir parents. I have had much experience with 

 the devotion of male birds to their ncMs, for every 

 time I set up a camera before a bird home, I have 

 the fears of the male to allay before there is any 

 hope that the female will enter her nest and brood 



