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Show STUDIED FLAMINGO AT HOME How Famous Naturalist Got "Closeup" View of Bird Remarkable for Extreme Shyness. A few years ago a very great bird lover succeeded in-getting close to a colony of Florida flamingos in the middle mid-dle of a swamp, lie had a queer baskeilike contrivance made and covered cov-ered it with palmetto leaves. While the old birds were off feeding be caused the device to lie placed close to the breeding grounds and crawled into it. In this way lie succeeded in obtaining much valuable information concerning the birds. He observed that when they came Hying home they came witli a great rushing of wings ami that the hundreds hun-dreds of them hurtling along through the air was the most marvelous spectacle spec-tacle that could be imagined, tine very interesting feature observed va that each female bird went straight to her nest and settled down to covering her eggs without thv slightest confusion. confu-sion. The males ambled about as though trying to show off their lovely plumage, for the flamingo i as vain as a peacock of his scarlet jacket. Then each went lo his own little home and standing gravely on one foot beside his mate seemed to be discussing the weather with her. When -one of these great birds took a nap he curled up his long neck like a string witli a double knot tied in it and laid it buck between his shoulders. |