VOL. IX. 



WAIT AND SP:E " PHOTOGRAPHY. 103 



One cannot, of course, record the best tilings one sees. 

 These always take place just out of range or round the 

 next comer. How can a mere camera depict a Sky-Lark 

 liunting for food in the long grass close to the tent, 



Pi^'. I. "A HUNGRY HOODED CEOW." 

 (Photographed by Miss E. L. Turner.) 



twitteiing happily to herself as she ruthlessly slays msect 

 after insect, and lays them in a tiny heap until the bundle 

 is large enough to carry away comfortably ? Or how 

 portray the rollicking fun that is bound up in the heart 

 of a Wheatear wooing his mate amidst the golden sand- 

 hills on a May morning ? 



Nevertheless, it is worth while trying to get something 

 definite. Perhaps erratic photography of this kind calls 



