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P.IKI) STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 



Obviously tlie 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 com})lete]y covered with the dried seaweed 

 aliundant on the beach below. I then attached a 



l)]ack linen thread to the shutter and retired about 

 one hundred feet to tln^ toj) of the bank. Almost as 

 soon as I lay down the tumult overhead ceased, the 

 bii'ils scattered, and the ra.s]iiiig Ir-a-r-r-r note of 



