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been invented and the blurred results I obtained 

 in the little time I could devote to the work held 

 little of promise for the future. From 1884 I 

 had more time for the work and mv collection of 

 pictures began to possess interest. There was a 

 woodchuck and a weasel, a pole cat and a par- 

 tridge, a flying squirrel caught in the air, and a 

 humming bird feeding her young, as well as pic- 

 tures of others as they poised over flowers. 

 There were fair pictures of red and ground squir- 

 rels and of several kinds of birds, and a specially 

 fine one of an eagle swooping down for his prey, 

 that quite filled the five by eight plate. That we 

 had caught the eagle when wounded and tamed it 

 and that the prey on which it swooped was a 

 chicken leg takes it out of the class of wild life 

 photography, but it made a pretty picture. 



In 1886 during some months of my stay in the 

 Rocky Mountains I spent some time seeking to 

 photograph its wild life. I pictured ptarmigan 

 from a distance of ten feet, but their protective 

 coloring made their outlines indistinct. Rocky 

 Mountain grouse and camp robbers I got at short 



