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fF 1HE NIDOLOGIST 
| Pind of, oll, te Binds: 
A Magazine Devoted to a Popular Knowledge of Animated Nature 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS 
Wor, LIT. No. 6. 
More about Animal Photography. 
BY DR. R. W. SHUFELDT, M. A. O. U. 
a was last year, I think, that I had some- 
thing to say in the Nipo.ocisr about 
the photography of birds, and the great 
use that first-class 
photographs of 
living wild and 
domestic birds 
were to the scien- 
tific taxidermist 
and to the zoélog- 
ical artist. The 
progress along 
such lines is now 
truly wonderful, 
and some pictures 
are being ob- 
tained that only 
a short time ago 
would have been 
thought impossi- 
ble. One of the 
best things I have 
seen for some 
time, and al- 
though not an 
O rnith ological 
subject, is too 
good to keep, so 
I place it before 
the many readers 
of the N1ipo.o- 
Gist, im order 
that they may en- 
joy it as much as 
I have. It is the photograph of a young 
“jack rabbit’ about two thirds the size of 
life, and was obtained by Mr. H. W. Nash, of 
Pueblo, Colo., who kindly furnished me with a 
print from his negative. From this print the 
accompanying “half-tone ’ was made—and it 
is surely a beauty. A recent writer in the 
American Journal of Photography has given us 
some interesting remarks upon this subject 
YOUNG 
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1896. 
JACK RABBIT. 
$1.00 PER YEAR. 
lately. He points to the fact that “‘ naturalists 
have been doing some clever things by the aid 
of photography. A Western sportsman has 
been for years making a collection of photo- 
graphs of all kinds of wild animals in their 
native haunts, and many of these pictures, es- 
pecially of ani- 
mals about to 
spring at their in- 
tended prey, have 
been taken under 
conditions that 
made the skillful 
handling of the 
rifle highly neces- 
sary the instant 
after the camera 
was snapped. An- 
other enthusiast 
has devoted him- 
self to photo- 
graphing the ani- 
mals of the forest 
in their nightly 
wanderings. He 
would set a wire 
in the path of the 
animal he wished 
to photograph, 
and adjust the 
camera so that as 
the animal came 
along and made 
contact with the 
wire blitz-pulver 
was ignited, and 
in the flash which 
resulted the picture was taken. 
“In this way some beautiful specimens of 
deer in all sorts of attitudes, of mountain lions, 
badgers, opossums, etc., have been secured, 
and many new features have been developed 
of great interest to the naturalist. M. Bontan, 
the European naturalist, who studies the wild 
life of the Mediterranean in the garb of a diver, 
has succeeded in taking some photographs of 
