116 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 
Obviously the only manner in which photographs 
of the Terns on their nests could be secured was to 
conceal one’s camera near the nest and retire, with a 
tube or thread, to a distance of a hundred feet or 
more. A nest was therefore selected about halfway 
up the bank on the westerly side of the island, the 
camera staked to the ground with long iron pins, 
and completely covered with the dried seaweed 
abundant on the beach below. I then attached a 
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ame nest as Nos. 60-62. 
58. Tern alighting on nest. 
black linen thread to the shutter and retired about 
one hundred feet to the top of the bank. Almost as 
soon as I lay down the tumult overhead ceased, the 
birds scattered, and the rasping te-a-r-r-r note of 
