THE WEASEL WHO SPOILED THE NEGATIVE. 



he went into a hole in the rocks. Here we 

 set up our camera and got an exposure on 

 him when he peeked out to see if we had 

 gone. 



I will not recount all our efforts and 

 failures, on the hares, but we finally had 



HIGH MINDED. 



to adopt the tiresome method of focussing 

 on one of their favorite sunning places, and 

 waiting patiently, 40 or 50 feet away, until 

 a hare appeared. 



The exposures were made with a Bausch 

 & Lomb-Zeiss lens, Series VIIa, working 



at full opening F. 6.3. The timing was 

 i L d to -h second. The shutter was sprung 

 with a 50 foot tube, to which was fitted an 

 unusually large bulb. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam, in his monograph 

 of this interesting little creature, says: 



" The Rocky mountain Pika is common 

 in the rock slides of the Boreal Province, 

 in Idaho. In the Salmon river Pahsimeroi, 

 in the Saw Tooth mountains, we found it 

 ranging from the Canadian zone to within 

 a short distance of the summits of the high- 

 est peaks. It was encountered most 

 abundantly in the neighborhood of timber 

 line, between the altitudes of 3,050 and 

 3,350 meters (10,000 and 11,000 feet), per- 

 haps because suitable rock slides are most 

 frequent at this elevation. The lowest col- 

 ony discovered, in the Salmon river moun- 

 tains, inhabited a mass of volcanic slide 

 rock surrounded by Douglas fir and Mur- 

 ray pine, on the East slope of the range, 

 about 8,600 feet above the sea. In a narrow 

 part of the valley of Big Wood river, near 

 its headwaters, a few individuals were 

 found in slides as low as 7,400 feet. It was 

 observed also in the mountains between 

 the headwaters of Big Lost river and Trail 

 creek. 



