With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . n page 279 had caughttwo dozen Greenfinches before eleven oclock on themorning we visited him, and told us that the bestdays sport he ever remembered having had suppliedhim with eleven dozen birds, consisting of Larks,Linnets, Redpolls, Goldfinches, Greenfinches, Chaf-finches, Titlarks, and Starlings. He seemed sur-prised that anybody should take sufiicient interestin bird-catching to photograph it in operation ; andwhen I jocularly told him that we had come toBrighton to immortah
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . n page 279 had caughttwo dozen Greenfinches before eleven oclock on themorning we visited him, and told us that the bestdays sport he ever remembered having had suppliedhim with eleven dozen birds, consisting of Larks,Linnets, Redpolls, Goldfinches, Greenfinches, Chaf-finches, Titlarks, and Starlings. He seemed sur-prised that anybody should take sufiicient interestin bird-catching to photograph it in operation ; andwhen I jocularly told him that we had come toBrighton to immortahse him, he looked alarmed,and said he hoped our picture wouldnt turn upagainst him at Lewes Assizes. In order to show how newlv-cauo-ht birds are 282 WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. caged, my hrother took a pliotog-rapli of a receiverbelonging to two young fellows, wlio had tlieirnets spread alongside a plot of mangold top of the cage has two circular holes in have each the leg of an old cotton stockingtacked neatly round them, and once the capturedbird has l)een thrust down the ingenious funnel. f4 I L.
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