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CAMERA SHOTS AT BIG AND SMALL GAME 



CAMERA shots at animals' Something of every- 

 day occurrence, one may say. 



And yet I confidently afiirm that most pictures of 

 animals — wild animals, I mean — which illustrate books 

 of every description have not been taken "on the spot," 

 with the characteristic surroundings of the animal's 

 habitat. 



Pictures taken in zoological gardens and game-pre- 

 serves, frequently in a complete stage-setting, as it 

 were, more or less retouched, often produce the im- 

 pression that the animals have been photographed in 

 field or forest. Writers on zoological subjects for the 

 most part ha\'e to fall back on artists for the illustra- 

 tion of their books. Artists, however, are not always 

 competent to interpret the life of the free animal. Most 

 of them are not only personally unacquainted with the 

 life of animals al large, but ha\'e to use as models bad- 

 ly ])repared S])ecimens at the nearest nuiscum of natural 

 history. Only a few artists have been in a position to 



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