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 The Return of the Nuthatch i3

pearance of the camera within two feet of us for more than an hour, during which time twelve exposures were made, still she repeated all her

d o e s n ot want to, eat at once, and hides it in the trees for future use. c o m i n g quickly hack for more.

I feel sure it is the same bird. the ﬁrst day of her reappearance I was attracted by her evident

because

desire to draw my attention to herself. in the compam' of several small boys, to whose presence she always rather objected, I did not attempt to call her to me: but the next day, at the same place, being alone, I held out my hand. and she immediately,

As I was at the time

little tricks, not only once. but several times. The series of pictures is quite characteristic of her manner of alighting and clinging to the ﬁngers. thence making her way into my hand, very rarely ﬂying directly into it. Owing to her limited powr ers of steering, due, I suppose. to the shortnes of her tail-feath- ers, to find it neces-

she seems

sary to assume a particular pose on a tree trunk before essaying llight t0 the

As for, merh'. she flies

hand.

away with what

she cannot. or

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without hesitation, ﬂew to it for the nuts therein, and stayed with me

until Iwas obliged to leave her.

I have never seen her ﬂy to anybody

else, and all who have seen her with me have been thoroughly convinced

that she recognized me.