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Curly tailed lizard, Cay Verde 392 



Resting after the hurricane on Upper Gold Ring; an abandoned negro hut 392 



General view of booby and man-o'-war colonies 393 



Boobies on coral reef, 75 feet above the sea, one of the highest coral cliffs in the Bahamas. 394 



Western part of the booby colony, on the elevated portion of the island 395 



Parent boobies covering young from direct sun heat of 130 degrees 396 



Nesting booby, with young displaced in foreground 396 



Only young twin boobies noticed in 700 nests 397 



The parent boobies stand guard night and day except when searching for food 397 



Boobies in flight — note fan-tails 398 



Young booby in final gray plumage just before changing to adult 398 



Man-o'-war birds soaring 100 yards overhead on motionless wings 399 



Breeding colony of man-o'-war birds 400 



Young man-o'-war bird at close range 401 



Male and female man-o'-war birds flying over sea grape thicket — note wing action and 



forked tails 403 



Five nests of man-o'-war birds in a radius of six feet — this bird has but one young 403 



Man-o'-war bird descending on nest — note remarkable forward wing movement 404 



Female man-o'-war bird, showing extreme extent of its wing, 8 feet from tip to tip 405 



A contrast : Old bedraggled cow moose, indifferent to approaching canoe ; magnificent bull 



moose in action — Nictau lake 408 



Large cow moose detecting scent from camera blind — Red Brook creek, New Brunswick. . 409 



Bull moose struggling ashore 409 



Bull moose taken in July, 1907, and again by flashlight three nights later 410 



An early foggy morning on Nictau lake, 6 a. m. ; cow moose feeding 411 



Buck white-tail deer at New Brunswick trout stream 411 



Daylight — bull moose swimming so rapidly that it required three paddles to overtake 



him (4 p. m.) 412 



Flashlight — cow and calf moose — Upper Tobique river, New Brunswick 413 



Daylight — cow moose photographed at eight feet from blind 414 



Flashlight — large bull moose — Upper Tobique river, New Brunswick 417 



Third picture of the big bull moose that was photographed four times in twenty minutes. . 418 



Pair of young white-tail deer — Tobique river, New Brunswick, July 8, 1907 419 



Flashlight — young bull moose gazing with interest at approaching jack light — Nictau lake, 



New Brunswick, July 2, 1907 420 



Flashlight — boat rigged for night hunting with cameras, showing flashlight apparatus and 



jack lamp ; taken 1893 421 



A 75-pound timber wolf trapped on a deer runway near author's camp, Lake Superior, 



July 29, 1907 423 



Five hundred forest mushrooms at the base of a hard maple, Lake Superior 423 



A sapsucker making fresh sap basins in bark, where it also catches flies attracted by the 



sweet fluid ; July 26, 1907 424 



Another view, showing regularity of sap basins covering six weeks' use 424 



Mink taking its own picture by flashlight by pulling on a string baited with fish — White 



Fish river, Michigan ; July, 1907 425 



Flashlight — white-tail deer, with porcupine to right — July 28, 1907; White Fish lake, 



Michigan 426 



Two extremes — a Florida owl and a Canada jay or whiskey jack 427 



Deerlake, Sandy River district, Newfoundland 428 



Testing camera with thread set across caribou trail 429 



Doe and fawn that took their own pictures several hours later — Newfoundland, October 



20, 1907 429 



Daylight — weasel, Newfoundland; its nimbleness makes it hard to photograph 430 



