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In taking up the photography of living things, the choice of a 

 camera is an important matter, and according to our promise made 

 in Part I, we have given in the Appendix to this volume * a 



Photograph by Charles Reid. 



FIGURE 254. -Young Jackdaws. 



description of a piece of apparatus which has been specially designed 

 by one of us, and which has been made by Messrs Watson & Sons. 



We might point out what great possibilities exist of recording the 

 actual movements of various creatures by means of the cinemato- 

 graph, as has been so successfully done by Mr F. Martin Duncan, 

 though we must at the same time mention that the expense and 

 trouble incurred in carrying out this work would be very considerable. 



* See Appendix, under the heading of Chapter XXIV. 



