238 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



such pictures are needed or when the subject 

 proves too refractory to allow of photographing 

 him indoors. 



While I do not believe in photographing birds 

 or animals in a studio, I do think that snakes can 

 be best photographed in this manner, for they do 



Common Frog. 



not show their fear so readily as do the warm- 

 blooded animals and they always immediately as- 

 sume natural poses when released from the hand. 

 For the smaller snakes, the lizards, frogs, toads, 

 etc., a very convenient arrangement is a small 

 glass cage, at one end of which the lens may be 

 inserted. One that is suitable, easy to make, and 

 costs but little consists of a rectangular case, 



