4 A^fl/es and Cinnments. 



looks poor compared with the orij^inal. ' Only two decades ag-o 

 men were writing- of the difficulties of approachin^f such shy, 

 wary birds as the Black - throated Diver close enough for 

 destruction with a shot i^un, and here we have ... a member 

 of the species figured on her nest with the camera, and its 

 operator not i6 feet away.' We have no reason to assume 

 that there is any ' fake ' in the photograph, and to obtain 

 such a negative is truly a remarkable performance. In his 



The Black >throa ted Diver on her Nest. 



' Introduction ' to the series Mr. Richard Kearton dwells once 

 again upon the extraordinary difficulties experienced in securing 

 the photographs, and of the ' danger to life and limb, 'etc. If he 

 will pardon our saying so, the prominence given to such details 

 is rather irritating, especially when it is borne in mind that there 

 exist several hundred very excellent ' bird ' negatives taken by 

 other qualified naturalists, without anything like the expenditure 

 of money and time and labour that Mr. Kearton so frequently 

 tells us is his lot. 



Naturalist, 



