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ating the habits and appearance of Nature's population through the aid 

 of the camera. Fancy the man who will kill 20 or 30 rare birds, that 

 he may sometime realize large sums from the skins of a rapidly 

 diminishing variety of fowl; and then contrast him with the person who, 

 camera and plates in hand, will travel miles of country and climb cliffs 

 and trees in order to study wild creatures at short range, and who brings 

 home as proof of his prowess, photographs taken under conditions far 

 more trying and at times far more exciting than those under which a 

 buck was ever shot by a rifle, or a bear was ever trapped by a deadfall. 



Photo from life by C. A. Reed. 

 CHICKADEE WITH A CHOICE MORSEL FOR HIS YOUNG. 



The one has as selfish trophies mere dried kindling; the other has 

 quite realizations of wild life, of dynamical interest to all who behold 

 them. To the man who hunts with a Camera there is no temptation to 

 hoard up anything but pictures of his game, and this, far from doing 



