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placed on a driftwood box, weighted with stones, 

 and completely covered with seaweed. These eggs 

 were hatching, and the bird soon returned to them ; 

 but before it had come back, another bird in darting 



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il'i. Tei'ii's nest ami liaLcliiji; 



Li.s ill rtuawuuJ. 



by had flown into tlie thread, s])ringing the shutter, 

 arid making the ])ictnre '^" of tln^ nest a.nd eggs here 

 given quite as effectively as many a similarly inex- 

 perieiicr(l p]iotogra])her coidd have done. 



The day but one following^Jnly "iOth — these egg- 

 shells had (lisa"|)]ieai'ed, and the nest was occn])ied 

 by two young birds witli just enough strength to 

 crawl toward the parent bird when it aiijjeared with 

 food."* And when their appetites were appeased the 

 parent Inrd took her ])lace on the nest and brooded 

 them with the care of an anxious hen.'''- 



A few yards fT'om this new family were two 

 young wlio could not have l)een nver four days old, 

 but who had left the nest for the shadi^ of a i)iece of 

 driftwoixl. Heri! they were fed by two birds — doubt- 

 less bdtli ]>a.reuts — whom ihc}' seenu'd to I'ecognize 

 among tlie othcu' Terns ho^'ering above them. They 



