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article, and during the intervening period, not a little of my 
time has been spent in perfecting methods by means of which 
serviceable photographs could be made of the class of subjects 
just mentioned. Most of these experiments, however, were 
made last summer, and, upon the whole, with a degree of suc- 
cess far beyond my most sanguine hopes and expectations. 
From living specimens,and with the animals for the most part 
life size, in natural attitudes, and with natural surroundings, 
there have been obtained by me excellent photographic pic- 
tures of Opossums; White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), 
in the act of jumping; Turkey Buzzard (life size head); nest 
and two young of Icteria virens (life size); also the same of 
Prairie Wabbler; Indigo Bird; Wood Thrush (Turdus mus- 
telinus); Chipping Sparrow; Cat-birds; Red-eyed Vireo; sev- 
eral woodpeckers (mostly life size) ; various species of bats (life 
size); many snakes, lizards, hylas and toads; bumble-bee and 
flowers; and others too numerous to mention. Many of my 
photographs, too, not in this list, have been published, and ap- 
peared in various places. 
My success with some of the birds was extremely gratifying, 
and I have succeeded not only in obtaining many beautiful 
pictures, but likewise a number that are in my opinion more 
truthful portraits of their subjects than any of the ordinary 
illustrations we usually see of them in zoological works and 
text-books. 
Early last summer I had in my possession a pair of living 
Cedar Birds, and they were most gentle and remarkably tame. 
One of them is still mine, and is kept in a large cage in order 
that I may study the moult in that species, which process it is 
at this writing (October 11, 1896) passing through. During 
July, I also had a pair of nestling Cedar Birds, at the age they 
quit the nest. With these, as well as with the adults, I made 
many photographic studies. In my studio I obtained a fine, 
life size picture of the male, in a most animated attitude; the 
pair was also obtained, and were equally satisfactory. Out of 
doors the operation is far more difficult, and the effort to 
secure the young was rewarded with but partial success, while 
in taking the adults under nearly the same conditions, a much 
