RARE PICTURES AFIELD 195 



on a log, focusing and covering a set camera, and 

 hiding in a blind at a distance until the bird was 

 tempted, as I hoped it would be, to pick up the lens. 

 Almost simultaneously I was forced to hurl a stick 

 at the bird in order to make it drop the lens, which 

 was a fine rectilinear nearly two inches in diameter. 



