. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . , justthe thing to alternate with the strain and confinementof professional or business life, a means of health andstrength, of keeping enthusiasm and youthful course any outdoor sport is useful in this direction,yet the quest of the study of Nature, in some of itsdepartments, has special advantages for providingrefreshing resource for the mind, as well as for thebody. Bird study has a peculiar inducement in thatit is seasonable the year roimd, and deals with livingsubjects, which are beautiful and of special fascinati
. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . , justthe thing to alternate with the strain and confinementof professional or business life, a means of health andstrength, of keeping enthusiasm and youthful course any outdoor sport is useful in this direction,yet the quest of the study of Nature, in some of itsdepartments, has special advantages for providingrefreshing resource for the mind, as well as for thebody. Bird study has a peculiar inducement in thatit is seasonable the year roimd, and deals with livingsubjects, which are beautiful and of special fascinationbecause of their power of flight. The gunner and thefisherman at the close of their short season—all toobrief it seems—put away their implements of the chasewith regret, for it will be many long months before itwill be time again to start out. But the ornithologistmay go whenever his time permits, when the longingfor the wild floods his soul. If there were any question of the right of bird studyto rank as a sport, and a leading one at that, a certain 6. THE APPEAL OF THE SPORT discovery, made not many years ago, banishes all pos-sible doubt. This was the discovery that photographycould be employed in bird study with splendid suc-cess. At once this gave to the bird student a weapon,an implement, putting him in the class of everyone now knows about this new thingwhich is, indeed, a sport by itself, hunting with thecamera. This is not confined to any one departmentof natural history, but is the capture upon a photo-graphic plate of the image of any wild living creature—mammal, bird, fish, or even insect. Birds offer specialinducements for this pursuit, as they are far morenumerous than the wild mammals. Moreover, fishcan seldom be photographed save in captivity, andinsects are small and not popular. Studying bird and animal life with the camera cer-tainly is a splendid sport. It destroys no life, yet yieldsresults far superior to those of gun and flesh-pot
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