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she almost flew into our tent. The next morning her strawberry patch was white 
with hailstones and we found her sitting humped over a stone, while her two be- 
draggled young were trying to keep warm under cover of the firs. By this time 
our little neighbors were so tame that they did not startle when Mr. Bailey shot a 
hummingbird, and as he said, the only danger was that if we had stayed much 
longer they would get so tame that some one would shoot them when we left. As 
we broke camp to go on up the mountains soon afterwards, however, I trust that 
no harm came through us to the little family that had given us .so much pleasure 
while camped in their woods. 
Washington, D. C. 
1. BLUE-FACED BOOBY AND NEST 
Three Boobies Interviewed 
BY WAI.TKR K. KlSllKK 
ILLX"STRATKI> HY THE AUTHOR AND JOHN O. SNYDER 
W E found boobies, at rest, scarcely more difticult to photograph than stuffed 
birds, provided we exercised elementary caution in approaching them. 
They made ideal subjects, consequently, for a piping hot day on a tropi- 
cal islet, since we early discovered that under such conditions one is likely to l)e 
