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6 CAMERA SHOTS AT BIG GAME 



of Mr. Wallihan's, and though the blacktail and the antelope last 

 better, yet they, too, can nowhere be found as they were but a 

 dozen years ago. The cougar pictures have an especial value. 

 Where cougars are plentiful it is easier to take their photographs 

 than in the case of deer, and there are a number of localities in 

 the Rockies where they are still fairly abundant ; but they are 

 steadily growing scarcer, and where they have become really 

 scarce the work of the photographer becomes one of such 

 hopeless labor, the chance for success is so very small, as to be 

 practically prohibitive. There are still cougars east of the 

 Mississippi, but nowadays it would be a simple impossibility 

 for any man to take of them such pictures as Mr. Wallihan 

 has taken of the Colorado cougars. Moreover, even where 

 cougars are plentiful, the photographer might work a lifetime 

 before getting such a remarkable picture as that of the cougar 

 jumping in mid-air. As I know from practical experience, it 

 is exceedingly difficult, even when the cougar has been treed, 

 to get a really fine photograph, as it is not possible to choose 

 the conditions of ground and light in advance. 



Mr. Wallihan's hunting was in northwestern Colorado and 

 western Wyoming — regions where I have often followed the 

 game he describes. There are no whitetail deer in the coun- 

 try he covered, the buffalo were extinct before he began work 

 with his camera, and he never had luck with bears. But his 

 series of elk, antelope, blacktail and mountain lion pictures 

 leave little to be desired. It is, by the way, difficult to deter- 

 mine whether to use the ordinary vernacular names of these 



