80 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 
trees, made known their presence above by disgorg- 
ing a half-digested eel, which dropped with a thud 
at our feet and occasionally nearer, suggesting the 
advisability of carrying an umbrella. The vegeta- 
tion beneath the well-populated trees was as white 
39. A view in the Heron rookery. looking upward from the ground to nests 
and young, about eighty feet above. 
as though it had been liberally daubed with white- 
wash, and the ground was strewn with blue-green 
eggshells neatly broken in two across the middle; 
fish, principally eels, in various stages of digestion 
