. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . about seven inches acrosswhile the hole was four inches indiameter. The sandy clay floor wasstrewn with fish bones, most of themold ones proving the hole to havebeen inhabited before. On this ratherharsh bed wabbled back and forthwith heads up and mouth open, fiveyoung Kingfishers perfectly nudewithout the sign of down to protecttheir tender skin which was as whiteas a babys. Their big eyes were stillshut for what use had they for eyesin such a home. There too, lay thedinner which their father had carriedto them as we had seen him
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . about seven inches acrosswhile the hole was four inches indiameter. The sandy clay floor wasstrewn with fish bones, most of themold ones proving the hole to havebeen inhabited before. On this ratherharsh bed wabbled back and forthwith heads up and mouth open, fiveyoung Kingfishers perfectly nudewithout the sign of down to protecttheir tender skin which was as whiteas a babys. Their big eyes were stillshut for what use had they for eyesin such a home. There too, lay thedinner which their father had carriedto them as we had seen him enterthe hole, a small minnow about twoand one-half inches long. Our lastfilm had been exposed in taking asnap shot of the dam so we were un-able to photograph the nest. Thesky was rapidly becoming over-castwith storm clouds and we had tohurry. We laid boards over thetrench which we had dug, a perfect-ly straight one, covered the boardswith earth and hurried on to completeour journey which took the remain-ing time until 2:40 p. m. The actual 152 THE OOLOGIST. We Skinned the Bear in a Cloud of Mosquitoes.—Photo by J. A. Munro.
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