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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR NATURALISTS. 



In bird-photography, however, there still seems 

 an opening for a keen naturalist who will content him- 

 self with a monograph on one particular family, who 

 will in fact make up his mind that his string of 

 frightened nestlings on a branch shall only be the first 

 of an increasingly difficult series, and that neither his 

 pen nor his camera shall be limited by merely pretty 

 ideals. 



The list of British mammalia, fercz naturce, is 

 a surprisingly short one. The most liberal estimate 



places the number at 

 forty-one, of which five 

 or six have become 

 extinct within historic 

 times. The following 

 list comprises those 

 which the photographer 

 naturalist may reason- 

 ably hope to encounter 

 at some time or other : 

 Great Bat, Small Bat, 

 Long-eared Bat, 

 Hedgehog, Mole, 

 Shrew, Water Shrew, 



Fox, Stoat, Weasel, Badger, Otter, Squirrel, Dormouse, 

 Woodmouse, Fieldmouse or Vole, Common Mouse, 

 Brown Rat, Water Rat or Vole, Hare, and Rabbit. 

 Of these twenty-one species not more than a dozen 

 can be said to be so common as to be seen without the 

 trouble of looking for them, whilst the number of those 



Woodmouse. 



