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To get him on the ground, I simply had a big piece of an old rough 

 log put up in a favorable light in my studio. Then selecting a suitable 

 part of this, I focussed upon it as sharp as possible with an open lens. 

 My Partridge was then induced to walk up and down upon this log until 

 be became thoroughly accustomed to the novelty of the procedure. Final- 

 ly, in the course of these short promenades, he happened to stop on the 

 very spot on the old log, where I had focussed. In the meantime, how- 

 ever, I had inserted a very small "stop" and a very quick plate, and the 

 light being exceptionally good, I risked what practically almost amount- 

 ed to an instantaneous exposure. As a result of this operation, I se- 

 cured a beautiful negative, and some day later on I hope to be able to 

 publish a reproduction of it in the American Ornithology. 



The second time I attempted this Texan Bob-white was on the same 

 •day and in the same place. Removing the log, I replaced it with the 

 small limb of a tree, and by a little gentle persuasion, I was not long in 

 inducing this very amiable Partridge to walk up along it. I had focus- 

 sed on a point where the branches forked, and as he reached there he 

 took a notion to squat down. He appeared so charming in this attitude 

 and the high light rendered him and his deep tinted plumage so hand- 

 some that I could not resist the temptation, so by a gradual, though, 

 rapid pressure of the pneumatic bulb, I fortunately made a fine result, 

 and a reproduction of this is here shown in figure 1, of the present 

 paper. 



I found Bob-whites far easier to photograph than any of the western 

 Partridges, except, perhaps, the Chestnut-bellied Scaled Partridge, a 

 iorm I was particularly successful with, both on the ground as well as 

 on the limbs of trees. 



In figure 3, for example, we have this bird absolutely as he ap- 

 pears in nature. Under the proper course of training he had become 

 very gentle indeed, and would walk up and down my extended arm 

 without any apparent fear or concern whatever. He was extremely 

 alert, however, and the very slightest sound attracted his attention, and 

 in expressing his state of incessant awareness he would keep raising 

 and lowering his very pretty crest, and in the same gradual manner that 

 some of the larger butterflies open and close their wings. At last, how- 

 ever, when I felt pretty sure that his rufitled spirits were down to their 

 normal ebb, I allowed him to walk off of my arm and hand or to the 

 limb of an oak, which I had prepared for him in the same manner as I 

 bad previously arranged the limb of a tree for my Texan Bob-white. It 

 was not long before I had made three or four successful exposures on 

 him in this situation, and one of the best of these is here reproduced in 

 figure 3. 



