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lens, and one the side. (See illustration 

 of bluebirds.) This will not only remove 

 the set look, but will reveal the mark- 

 ings on both breast and back. 



Butterflies and insects make interest- 

 ing nature photographs. By the use of 

 an ordinary portrait attachment it is 

 by no means difficult to obtain such 

 studies. Always picture butterflies at 

 rest on the flowers on which you know 

 they feed. 



For lack of space I have named only 

 a few of the interesting nature subjects 

 available for the camera. When the 

 birds have migrated, when the butter- 

 flies and the flowers have vanished, and 

 the fields and woodlands are sheathed in 

 the crystalline whiteness of winter, many 

 pleasant hours may be profitably' spent 

 over an album of pictures such as these, 

 and in recalling the adventures exper- 

 ienced in obtaining them. 



A Florida Monster. 



Although the palmetto swamps of 

 Florida harbor moccasins, rattlesnakes 

 and other reptiles, a spectacle like that 

 shown in the accompanying photograph 

 is very unusual. The enormous "reptile" 

 is a magnolia tree that has grown into 

 this very unusual shape. Magnolia trees 

 are usually very straight and tall and a 

 freak of any kind is verv rare. 



"Treed." 



It is a very rare sight to see two 'pos- 

 sums up the same tree but in this case 

 the photographer succeeded in fixing the 





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A MAGNOLIA TREE OF UNUSUAL SHAPE. 

 Photograph hy E. S. Coutant. 



