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is frequently the case, in photographing birds 

 especially. 



About one hundred feet of small rubber tubing 

 and a large rubber bulb or small hand bicycle 

 pump should always be carried, — this for use 

 when it is found necessary, or at least advisable, 

 to release the shutter from a distance. The best 

 form of bulb that I have found is the large rubber 

 syringe used for sprinkling plants. The nozzle 

 can be cut off and a plug fitted to attach to the 

 end of the tubing. This bulb, by a slight squeeze, 

 will give a sufficient air pressure, which the ordi- 

 nary exposure bulb, sold by photographic dealers, 

 will not. 



For those who make extended trips after sub- 

 jects it is always well to carry with them a small 

 quantity of concentrated developer and fixer. 

 Water for washing can, most usually, be found, 

 as any stream or pond will answer the purpose. 

 While it is not wise to attempt to develop all the 

 negatives you make before returning to your 

 proper dark room and apparatus, it is well to 

 develop a few now and then in order that you 

 may be sure that there is nothing wrong with the 

 working of your camera or with the exposures 

 you are giving. I am acquainted with a man 

 who once went on a long photographic trip, dur- 

 ing which he made some three or four hundred 

 exposures. He was foolish enough not to test 



