WILD LIFE AT HOME. 



THE WRONG WAY TO DESCEND. 



Assuming that 

 the right sort of 

 men are assisting, 

 and that the tackle 

 may be depended 

 upon, the photo- 

 grapher dons the 

 loops at the end 

 of the descending 

 ropes, and prepares 

 to walk backwards 

 over the edge of 

 the cliff', as shown 

 in the illustration 

 on p. 22. The two 

 gentlemen figuring 

 in the picture as 

 rope - manipulators 

 are both closely 

 identified with 

 British ornithology 

 the one nearest 

 my brother being 

 the son of Dr. 

 Saxby, of Shet- 

 land - bird fame., 

 and the other Mr. 

 Laurence Edmond- 

 ston, the Laird of 

 Unst, and pro- 



