18 PHOTOGRAPHY FOR BIRD-LOVERS. 



The Changing Bag. 



A changing bag of ample size is indispensable, 

 and much to be preferred to a multiplicity of 

 dark-slides. Often when without this accessory I 

 have changed my plates with perfect safety and 

 success beneath a pile of rugs or in a bed at day- 

 time, but the stuffy horrors of such proceedings 

 in hot weather are beyond belief, to say naught 

 of the risk of dust settling on the plates and the 

 resulting pin-holes in the negative. A changing 

 box is useful, but limited in its service, and, more- 

 over, weighty. 



Camera Cover. 



A very useful little piece of apparatus is a water- 

 proof cover, to slip over the camera when it has 

 to be left for hours at a time focussed on some nest. 

 I think there is no such appliance on the market 

 but one is easily made out of a piece of an old rain- 

 coat or any similar material. It need be nothing 

 more than an oblong sheet of waterproof with 

 double tapes fastened to the four corners. Care 

 should be taken to make it long enough to cover 

 the whole of the bellows at their fullest extension, 

 and wide enough to rather more than cover the 

 sides, leaving an inch or so to project beneath, so 

 that the water may drip clear of the camera. 

 This will answer its purpose well enough, but if, 

 by means of a deft needle, the cover is shaped and 



