122 PHOTOGRAPHY FOR BIRD-LOVERS. 



to make them appear as if taken in the open country, 

 and they are highly mischievous in the interests 

 of both bird-photography and Natural History in 

 general, for the public, deficient in field-craft, 

 accept them as genuine, receiving the lesson, too 

 often wholly inaccurate, which they convey. It 

 is therefore in the interests of our hobby for us all 

 to make known such impositions as come under 

 our notice. 



