. Bird-lore . , he does so and makes his studies,taking good care not to let go his ropes. If the nest should be on a ledge too narrow to set the apparatusupon, my brother passes two of the legs of his tripod through a beltround his waist and the third into any convenient crevice he canfind, and with his body practically at right angles to the face of thecrag and his camera almost resting on his chest, focusses and takeshis picture. I feel that I have barely touched the fringe of my subject in thisshort article, but I have no doubt that to the man equipped with adecent camera and a genuine lov
. Bird-lore . , he does so and makes his studies,taking good care not to let go his ropes. If the nest should be on a ledge too narrow to set the apparatusupon, my brother passes two of the legs of his tripod through a beltround his waist and the third into any convenient crevice he canfind, and with his body practically at right angles to the face of thecrag and his camera almost resting on his chest, focusses and takeshis picture. I feel that I have barely touched the fringe of my subject in thisshort article, but I have no doubt that to the man equipped with adecent camera and a genuine love of nature, the hints I have given willbe sufficient to set him to work natural history picture-making, and,as an old farmer, I know enough of American ingenuity in tool-makingto convince me that there is no bird or beast living in the westernworld that cannot be photographed, living, loving, and laboring in itsfree, open-air home. Any way, every reader of Bird-Lore has thebest wishes of the brothers Two Nova Scotia Photographs BY C. -WILL BEEBE With photographs from nature by the author. THE slate-colored Junco or Snowbird breeds veryabundantly in the fields of Digby county, Nova 7 j-^-i: V ^ Scotia, and its neat nests are often so artisticallyplaced that they are a continual temptation to thenaturalist photographer. One nest, in particular,with four eggs, was especially beautiful, seen throughthe ground glass of the camera, the contrast be-tween the eggs and the waxy green leaves andscarlet fruit of the bunch-berries near it makingone long for color photography. This nest was in a field, five feetfrom a road, and partly protected by a tiny bank of turf. ^o^
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