CHAPTER VIII 



PHOTOGRAPHING THE SMALLER MAMMALS 



Here is a field in which, wliile the possibilities 

 for excitement are not so great as they are in 

 work with the larger animals, the chances for 

 pictures are greater. It is a field, however, in 

 which a knowledge of the habits of the sub- 

 jects is, in most cases, much more necessary than 

 in any other. 



Should one attempt to hunt for the smaller crea- 

 tures without a fairly accurate knowledge of their 

 daily lives, he might tramp the woods or fields for 

 weeks and find nothing but the squirrels and chip- 

 munks while, unawares, he has passed time and 

 again within a few feet of some tiny fur-bearer 

 watching him with inc[uisitive black eyes in fear 

 and trembling. 



One never realizes the immense army of small 

 mammals, especially of the Rodent family (the 

 mice, rats, squirrels, etc.), that inhabits our woods 

 and fields, until he starts to look for them. They 

 are innumerable, but, as they are abroad princi- 

 pally at night, one who is not well versed in their 



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