The Bonaparte Gull 



Authorities. — Lawrence {Chroicocephalus Philadelphia), in Baird, Rep. Pac. R. 

 R. Surv., vol. ix., 1858, p. 852 (San Diego, Petaluma, etc.); Willett, Pac. Coast Avi- 

 fauna, no. 7, 1912, p. 14 (s. Calif.; migr. dates, etc.); Dwight, Auk, vol. xxxvii., 1920, 

 p. 265 (plumages and molts). 



Taken in Santa Barbara 



CIRCE 



BONAPARTE GULL IN WINTER DRESS 



Photo by the Author 



"NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY" is really a phase of the collector's 

 mania. The devotee of the camera becomes so thoroughly obsessed with 

 the idea of "taking" everything he sees, that he cannot sit still and enjoy 

 the largess of nature. In the early days of the autochrome we even felt 

 uneasy in the presence of a sunset, and while others were drinking in 

 the glories of a crimson West, we grumbled at the absence of our favorite 

 "gun." It is not alone a temporary enjoyment that one misses either, — 

 a surrender to beauty's self, untainted by professional appraisal. The 

 intent photographer, following the movements of his subject, jockeying 

 for position, computing exposure schedules, fearing momentary flight, has 

 not time for accurate observation nor for notebook work. Science and 

 Art conflict here, and though each may serve the other through the 

 finished product, the photograph, the pursuit of bird portraits in itself 

 is a thoroughly engrossing and non-scientific pursuit. 



Tt is for this reason that the author offers herewith a gallery of 



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