. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . t is wanted now to till up this vacant gapis an account of the home life of the gieat aj)es. This is mit to hr Dhtniiiril liij shiiotiiiijmill jirrsii-iifiiii/ t lie III. hilt fill iiirrtiiii/ thrill ils it ircrr in ii Jririiilljl iiHjl. Tins Avrote Fniiik I^iickland. now many years ago. respectingsome specimen of orang-otang which had just reached lie had hved in these days of photography, I feel positiveiie would lia\ e included the camera and tele-photographic lensin liis suggested outfit. .At any rate, liis conde
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . t is wanted now to till up this vacant gapis an account of the home life of the gieat aj)es. This is mit to hr Dhtniiiril liij shiiotiiiijmill jirrsii-iifiiii/ t lie III. hilt fill iiirrtiiii/ thrill ils it ircrr in ii Jririiilljl iiHjl. Tins Avrote Fniiik I^iickland. now many years ago. respectingsome specimen of orang-otang which had just reached lie had hved in these days of photography, I feel positiveiie would lia\ e included the camera and tele-photographic lensin liis suggested outfit. .At any rate, liis condemnation of mere killing is wortliyof consideration. Tliere is so nuich slaughter of wild animallife going on ail o\er tlie world, tliat at tlie present rate ofdestruction there will soon he nothing left to kill. But before the comini)- extermination the substitution 10 Pictures of Bird Life of the camera for more deadly weapons opens up a no^elform of sport to cxcry loAer of wild life,—one no lessfasciiiatino aiul iiitinitcly more difficult than tliat followed. r^^^ktt^l:^^!!^ Photographing Nest up a Tree with an ImprovisedTripod made of Youxg Trees. by the wielder of gun and rifle: a sport, too. which hasthe immense adyantage of in no way diminishing the fastdwindling number of our fcr(c fiaf//r(c. and one Mhicli at Photography for Naturalists 11 tlie same time produees permanent and trutliful reeordsof the eountless beautiful forms around us. In tlie whole ran<;e of pliotograpliic j)ossil)ilities, wideas it is. where can any sid^jeet be found more worthy ofones best energies and keenest enthusiasm than the portrayalof the inner life, haunts, and habits of the wild free inha])itantsof woodland, meadow, mountain, and marsh ( As Buekland says, there are so many men who havethe time and the money, and there must l)e so many whobadly Mant a new sensation, and some definite object inlife, that I wonder it has never struck some of them whata good time they could have. Hundreds
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