RARE PICTURES AFIELD 171 



and a number of other birds which portray a look 

 of calm and intelligence that is very wonderful to 

 me. Chief among these stands a picture of a pair 

 of dusky falcons, which I used in the illustration 

 of "Birds of the Bible." There is also a hawk 

 picture with a very wonderful expression of power 

 and calm on the face of the bird, among the illus- 

 trations of that book. 



At other times I have pictured anger very plainly 

 to be discerned in a bird, which was really exhibit- 

 ing anger over being disturbed at a feast of some 

 fresh meat that I had wired to a limb on which I 

 had focused a camera near its nesting place. There 

 never was any trouble in getting all the pictures 

 of greed I wanted on the faces of feeding birds, 

 the vulture especially. 



A few times I have pictured fear to such an 

 extent that the bird's eyes seemed fairly to pop 

 from its head. I have many pictures of birds 

 either singing or uttering their tribal calls or cries 

 of warning. I regard any picture which truly 

 portrays a definite characteristic of any species 

 on the face of a bird as very rare and interesting. 

 I never gave my nesting birds any occasion to 

 exhibit anger near their nest, nor was a nest on 

 which I had a focus ever attacked by any other 

 bird in such a way that I could reproduce the 

 feeling of the owners. I have no study of a 

 parent bird when it flies like a little fury to defend 

 its brood, and none of a bird of either sex in mourn- 



