126 PHOTOGRAPHY FOR NATURALISTS. 



explaining that the slow-worm was a lizard, and the 

 stream of reminiscence flowed uninterruptedly on until 

 closing time. 



It would be hard to leave a symposium, such 

 as the foregoing, without a fairly good notion of the 

 fauna of the immediate neighbourhood, of the best 

 way of trapping them, and of the best people to whom 

 to apply. Ready and gratuitous assistance will always 

 be freely offered, but it is not a bad plan to put matters 

 on a business footing by offering a small sum for good 

 living specimens. If the payment is accompanied by 

 the photographic result of the capture, the photographer 

 will find his fame spread into the adjoining parish and 

 his task thereby lightened. 



The whole secret of securing live specimens of 

 the wild mammalia lies in enlisting the sympathies 

 of those whose lives have been spent among them, 

 and whose casual observations form the best possible 

 reference book. The experience thereby gained will, 

 as a rule, enable the learner to turn his individual 

 attention to stalking or trapping with a reasonable 

 expectation of success. A hand-camera should be 

 habitually carried, for in natural history work, as in 

 shooting, it is impossible to foretell what may turn 

 up next. The camera-case is useful for carrying 

 things other than the camera, and should not be 

 left behind. One has only a single handkerchief as a 

 rule, and that will not contain more than a single mole 

 or hedgehog. For carrying really small creatures 

 nothing is better than tobacco-tins, preferably of the 

 flattened kind which hold about two ounces. 



