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to use tlie Reflex camera ou it. We had brought a rope along with us, and going 
to the top of tlie bluff vve found a fence post which some ranchman had left handy. 
We appropriated it and stuck it in a hole a prairie dog liad dug; then making a 
loop in the rope to put a leg through, and taking a turn or two around the post, I 
started over the edge, my friend paying out the rope. On the first trial I missed 
the nest so far that I could not get to it, and went on down to the bottom, and then 
returned to the top to start over. The second time I landed where I wanted to, 
but it was not a pleasant trip; ’dobe is nice and stick\- when it is wet, and makes 
beautiful dust when dry, and this was dry, consequently in these two trips I col- 
lected plenty of dust. It went down the back of npv neck, into my pockets, boots, 
everywhere it could find an opening, and I had my doubts as to whether the plate- 
holders were tight enough to 
keep it out. 
Arriving at the nest I found 
a shelf about six feet wade and 
four deep, sloping somewhat 
tow'ardtheouter edge. Crouch- 
ing in the far corner were two 
young owls, just pas.siug from 
the dowan- into the feathered 
stage. I had a camera sent 
dowai and made an exposure, 
the result of which I promptly 
christened “The Heavenly 
Twins’’ as soon as I had de- 
veloped the negative. As 
their situation was not good 
for photographic purposes I 
tried to move them into a pos- 
ition where the light w’as bet- 
ter. 'I'hey made no resistance 
to l)eing moved, beyond snap- 
ping their bills, but one flut- 
tered down to the foot of the 
cliff after I had moved it, 
sol went. on down myself. 
The fall had not hurt it, as, 
while it could not fly, it could 
l''ig. 42. vorxG wEsrr:Rx horxki) owe, .\Kour six use its wangs enough to break 
w'ERKS OLD the fall. 
At the bottom I made a few' 
exposures, the bird assuming those gracefuK ?) attitudes which it is the habit of 
\ oung owds to do in such circumstances, fluffing up its feathers and making itself as 
big as two. After examining it w'e left it w'here it w'as, thinking the parents 
w’ould take care of it. 
The next day we went there and found the young one in the nest, but no sign 
of the other. There was an adult in a tree close by, which a couple of Sparrow' 
Haw'ks were mobbing. We took the bird from the nest home w’ith us, making a 
cage from a large packing box, and I had good opportunity to study it for several 
days, until I left Paonia. If the picture I took of it at the house (Fig. 42 ) is com- 
pared w'ith Mr. Keyes’s ow'ls on page 15 of the January Condor, it will be seen 
