50 BIRD STUDIK.S WITH A C'AMKRA 



SO active were the little creatures that not one of 

 many exposures proved to be perfectly focused. 

 Finally I tried decoying the birds to a bono or bit 

 of bread in the bushes, but somehow they did not 



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succeed in discovering these baits until they were 

 placed on the ground."^' "' Then they responded so 

 quickly that often the bread had disappeared while 

 my head was concealed by the dark-cloth, and fre- 

 quently, while focusing, the birds would alight on 

 the tripod of the camera. I was forced, there- 

 foi'e, to focus on a stone, and, when ready to make 

 tli(! oxjiosure, lay a bit of bread on or near the 

 focal point, the two ])ictures given being thus ob- 

 tained. 



Various experiences with these unusually tame 

 birds finally led to what at first thought would have 

 been considered the wholly unreasonable ambition 

 of pliotogra])ldiig one of them in my hand. The 

 camera was therefore or(/cted at a. suitable point and 



