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Pictures of Bird Life 



lowered Avith greater ease and speed, and with less noise 

 and risk of slipping, and it leaves you a hand free. This 



alone is a 

 great ad^'an- 

 tage. I eould 

 often find a 

 use for three 

 or four hands, 

 and a spare 

 eye or two 

 would be use- 

 ful. 



3Ianipu- 

 lating a whole- 

 plate camera 

 up a tree, for 

 instance, or 

 on a Ion g 

 ladder, is Acry 

 often an awk- 

 ward l)it of 

 work, and, 

 singlc-lianded, 

 may \ery well 

 take over an 



hour's hard laboiu- before you can get satisfactorily focussed. 

 To obtain the pliotograpli of tlie Spotted Flycatcher's nest 

 on page 87, the spike of one leg of the tripod rested on 



Nest of Warsh-tit (Pants paliisins). Hole excavated by 

 Bird cut open to show Nest. 



