The Vaux Swift 
j. ?. : C ■. \ 
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'■iTTUTT^. 
eggs shown on this page. 
Sitting birds, when 
discovered, drop below 
the nest and hide, cling¬ 
ing easily to the smooth¬ 
est shaft by means of 
their tiny, needle-clawed 
feet, supported by the 
spiny tail. The young 
birds, likewise, quickly 
forsake the frail shelf 
which first cradled them; 
but it is several weeks 
before they get a wider 
Taken in Humboldt County Photo by the Author 
NEST AND EGGS OF VAUX SWIFT, IN SITU 
pleasantly year by year, 
and the situation looks 
“dead easy” to an out¬ 
sider. But after we had 
tried for two weeks to 
break into the game and 
had ruined two prospects 
of our own we were glad 
to avail ourselves of his 
skilled services. A well 
screened redwood stub 
meekly reposing within 
the corporate limits of 
Eureka, and supporting 
an ancient and rickety 
cleat ladder of Mr. Davis’s 
construction, yielded us 
the photographs and the 
Taken in Humboldt County Photo by the Author 
AN INSIDE VIEW 
LOOKING DOWN THE BARREL OF A HOLLOW REDWOOD STUB 
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