30 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
and after eyeing the blind and clucking her displeasure, she waddled onto 
her nest, removed the down from the eggs, and settled upon them, while 
I recorded her actions on motion film. 
Other birds ventured on their nests in the clumps of vegetation, and 
I could see their brown eyes peering from the tangled grass as they sat 
motionless. One old one was a little nervous and was easily startled 
from her nest; nearby was an unclaimed nest with four eggs, and when 
the whirring of the film made my photographic subject uneasy, she would 
go to the other nest to incubate. She would not remain for any length of 
time, however, but would soon waddle to her own 
The Provancher Society has set an example in practical conservation 
which might well be followed by similar organizations throughout the 
world; there are favorable sites in every community which might well 
be used as sanctuaries for native birds. 
Photograph by A. M. Bailey 
PROTECTIVELY COLORED 
