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necessary. On tlie inner side sharp 

 screws are protruding through; which I 

 call "spurs." Two straps, one on 

 either side, are all that is required to 

 hold them in phice no matter how 

 rough the bark may be. After setting 

 it, the camera is drawn up and fasten- 

 ed in the same manner as it is on other 

 styles of tripods and can be turned 

 about in all directions with ease. Witli 

 the aid of a screw-driver it can be 

 easily affi.xed to the corner of any wood 

 building for the purpose of obtaining 

 pictures of nests imder the eaves or 

 elsewhere; or can be affixed to a win- 



dow casing on the outside in the same 

 manner. 



For gi-oimd work and nests placed in 

 bushes not over one foot from the 

 ground it does very well, but for nests 

 over one foot and not placed in trees it 

 cannot be used, therefore I find it 

 necessary to carry two tripods, and 

 consider myself well off to get along 

 with so little. A ladder or strong ro]>e 

 sometimes bcjcomes a necessity, where 

 there are no suitable limbs from which 

 to get focus. Such feats as setting a 

 camera and getting the focus Avhile 

 clinging to a rope would not be advis- 



NEST AND EGGS OF EAKK BU^TING WITH EGGS OF THE COWBIKD. 



able unless it was to secure a picture (A 

 the nest of some rare species, in tliat 

 case you would be amply rewarded, but 

 in case of a common species it would 

 be much better to seek a nest in a more 

 accessible j^lace. 



Pictures will remind us of by-gone 

 days when we rambled though the 

 woods to study the great book of na- 

 ture, amid dancing sunbeams flitting 

 through leafy branches; amitl beautiful 

 flowers exhaling sweet fragrance filling 

 the ambient air with perfume; amid 



festoons of grape and woodbine hang- 

 ing in wreaths and garlands; through 

 fertile valleys with winding brooks and 

 rivulets, some slow and deep, others 

 rapid, murmuring a little trill as they 

 ripple o'er obstructing pel)bles or di- 

 verging from boulders, only to join 

 again and ripple on toward the ocean. 

 They will remind us of placid lakes, 

 where the wild fowl love to dwell; of 

 almost impenetrable swamps where 

 man seldom intrudes, and of grassy 

 lakes aboumling in birds in almost end- 

 less variety. 



