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carry out this idea of a daily visit, as I found the bird very 
wild, and not then being conversant with “the way of an Eagle,” 
I feared she (or he) might desert the eggs. So I contented my¬ 
self with viewing the position through a pair of strong field glasses 
from a far-away ridge, to satisfy myself the bird was stili incub¬ 
ating, and with making only occasional visits to the nest to 
anticipate the day of hatching. On each of these visits I made 
a mental survey of the position of the nest in the tree, and also 
of the tree itself—-assessing its suitability for attaching my camera 
in a favourable situation for distance and light, i noticed the 
natural advantage of the main side of the nest facing the morn¬ 
ing sun, and observed that, from underneath the limb carrying 
Nest of the Wedge-tail Eagle. 
the nest, another heavy branch projected. From there again, at a 
distance of 26 feet, was a smaller upright branch, which I could 
see would be a very suitable repose for “Sanderson” and its 
patient prototype “Dummy.” (I may add that “Sanderson” is 
my half-plate camera, and “Dummy' a broken old Thornton- 
Pickard, without Jens, tied up in a bundle of leaves). 
Underneath the tree, thirty feet from the butt, was a little 
thicket of “dead finish” scrub, which 1 mapped out as a trvsting 
place for “Stump” and myself (“Stump” is only an imitation 
constructed out of battered galvanised iron, and daubed over 
