. American ornithology for the home and school . ICAN ORNITHOL OGY. i^j rocks. The ledge below the hole was only eighteen inches wide so thecamera had to be set right at the mouth of the hole, showing only oneside. Could the camera have been set a little farther back the entrance to thenest could have been shown. In the photograph of the cliff, the streaknear the bottom is the narrow ledge and the hole with the nest is the onenearest the center of the picture. This photo was made from a rock stand-ing about forty feet from the cliff containing the egg. The cliff faces thewest or north-west and
. American ornithology for the home and school . ICAN ORNITHOL OGY. i^j rocks. The ledge below the hole was only eighteen inches wide so thecamera had to be set right at the mouth of the hole, showing only oneside. Could the camera have been set a little farther back the entrance to thenest could have been shown. In the photograph of the cliff, the streaknear the bottom is the narrow ledge and the hole with the nest is the onenearest the center of the picture. This photo was made from a rock stand-ing about forty feet from the cliff containing the egg. The cliff faces thewest or north-west and is several hundred feet high. The photo was madeat 2 p. m. and was a very hazardous undertaking. The large photo of the egg was made outside of the nest and is the samesize as the egg. It is rarely that a nest is found where a photo can bemade that will show the egg, and most photos of this kind are madeby placing the egg in a hole in the rock that is accessable to the is not so in this case as the egg was found in the rock as Photo by W. D. WOOD. VULTURES EGG IN CAVE. The eggs are laid in Feb. or March, and by May the young birds arewell grown. One which was captured April 24, measured twenty-fourin. from point to point of its wings. If they are not disturbed they willnest in the same place year after year. A young bird was taken from a 168 ORNI71/OLOGY.
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