. American ornithology, for home and school . - the speed of the camera shutter. I made,on different days, six negatives of her as she was about to step on thenest and every one shows the jerky movement of either the head or tail,even though some of them were made in one five hundredeth part of asecond. Several times the male bird came up to the edge of the pines andconversed with her in low pipings, but he never came to the nest,and I do not think that he ever sat upon the eggs; at least, the bird thatI always saw seemed to be the same one. One morning I found but two small pieces of egg shel
. American ornithology, for home and school . - the speed of the camera shutter. I made,on different days, six negatives of her as she was about to step on thenest and every one shows the jerky movement of either the head or tail,even though some of them were made in one five hundredeth part of asecond. Several times the male bird came up to the edge of the pines andconversed with her in low pipings, but he never came to the nest,and I do not think that he ever sat upon the eggs; at least, the bird thatI always saw seemed to be the same one. One morning I found but two small pieces of egg shell beside thenest; the little ones were following their mother in the cornfield, but Inever saw them before they were able to fly. When hatched they are.
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