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Identifier: birdlore201918nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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he young sprouts, and where the tiresome lay of the Chestnut-sidedWarbler rose like a fountain day and night. An hour later I revisited the blindand discovered the Nashville quietly brooding. Slipping under its far side, Iwas soon inserting a plate-holder, and shortly after took a ten-second exposureof the bird. I made other exposures of equal length, and in only one out offour did she move, and this was because a young bird underneath tried tochange its position. A lazy little song from the birch tops, which caused thelittle green bird on the nest to jerk her head up quickly and fly away, led meto believe that Nashville pert was not overmuch interested in his growingfamily. In a few moments his better half was back with a bunch of green cater- 270 Bird - Lore pillars, all cut into short lengths—or so they seemed—and delivered them tothe open mouths that greeted her. The shutter clicked, but she no longerminded that, for as an extra precaution I had clicked the shutter incessantly
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THE NASHVILLE QUIETLY BROODING until she ceased to jump at the sound, before I had inserted the first plate-holder. Of course there were lots of failures—plates were fogged, the Nashvillemoved too quickly, or the light was poor—but there were good pictures, too,a reward for sitting hunched up under an unbrella with one knee crooked Notes on the Nesting of the Nashville Warbler 271 about a sapling in order to stay on the hillside and endure in silence the friendly-ants which crawled down the back of my neck, not to speak of mosquitoswhose number was legion. The nest was in deep shadow during the greaterpart of the day, and, in consequence, I attempted slow exposures when thebird brooded and, of necessity, faster shots when she stood on the edge of the

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