. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. oobtain a photograph ofthis it was first necessaryto scrape away the sanduntil the extremity ofthe hole was reached;then I had to stick oneleg of the camera in thesandbank and affix longpoles to the other legs;in this way I managedto get the camera highenough to expose theplate. Next comes thephotograph of a Gold-finchs nest, with itseggs. This particularnest was placed on ahorizontal bough of anapple tree; but thegoldfinch generallybuilds more at the endof the branch. Some-times the bird selects ayew tree; its nest israrely
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. oobtain a photograph ofthis it was first necessaryto scrape away the sanduntil the extremity ofthe hole was reached;then I had to stick oneleg of the camera in thesandbank and affix longpoles to the other legs;in this way I managedto get the camera highenough to expose theplate. Next comes thephotograph of a Gold-finchs nest, with itseggs. This particularnest was placed on ahorizontal bough of anapple tree; but thegoldfinch generallybuilds more at the endof the branch. Some-times the bird selects ayew tree; its nest israrely found in hedge-rows. The one in thephotograph wasabsolutely hidden fromthe sight of onestanding below andlooking up at the bough. The photograph of the Books nest showsonly two eggs, as it was taken before thebirds had finished laying; there are generallyfour or five eggs, but these are too wellknown to need description. Perhaps every-one may not have thought why i-ooks sooften- nest in the vicinity of old mansionsand other buildings. I am inclined to think m %ii^.
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