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BIRD STUDIKS WITH A CAMERA 



In matching one's iibility as a hunter against the 

 timidity and cunning of a binl, rehitions are estab- 

 lished between the photograplier and his subject 

 which of necessity result in their becoming inti- 

 mately associated. 



Douljtless we shall never know just what birds 

 think of the peculiar antics in which the camera 



17. W,H,a Tlirusli on nest. 



enthusiast sometimes indulges, but certain it is that 

 an attempt to photograph some of the most familiar 

 and presumably best-known birds will o])en the 

 j)hotogra])lier's eyes to facts in tlnnr life histories 

 (jf whicli he was previously in utter ignorance. 



