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Bird -Lore 



PHOTOGRAPHING WATER - FOWL 



To watch at close range the wildfowl 

 accumulated on the Ward-Mcllhenny 

 reservation in the marshes of Louisiana 

 is the privilege of a lifetime. 



Mr. Herbert K. Job not only had this 

 privilege for about six weeks during last 

 December and the early weeks of January, 

 but he procured a remarkable series of 

 photographs of water-birds that make that 

 region their winter home. From the 

 moving pictures that he made the 

 Association now has a thousand-foot reel, 

 showing Pintails, Teals, and other Ducks, 

 as well as Boat - tailed Grackles and 

 Coots. 



To ornithologists, the most interesting 

 pictures he obtained were those of the 

 Blue Geese. The chief summer home of 

 these birds is supposed to be on the islands 

 north of the American continent, and 

 most, if not all of them, pass the winter in 

 the marshes of Louisiana. I know of no 

 case heretofore where they have been 

 photographed in large numbers at close 

 range. 



The accompanying illustrations were 

 all made by Mr. Job on this expedition, 

 and will give some idea of the results of 

 his skill and patience in the use of a 

 moving-picture camera. 



PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE WINDOW OF A CABIN ON 

 THE WARD-McILHENNY RESERVATION 



