Jan. ,1914 DIRECT APTROACII AS A METHOD IN BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY 
is dismissed. Moreover, a bird easily suffers a fatigue of attention. It suspects 
and scrutinizes, and liecause no crisis arises, it forgets in the very act of looking. 
A sand flea diverts its attention and it stops to pick it up and casts about for an- 
other one. Or it tests you repeatedly by a perking of the head, or by a threatened 
Fig-. ,3. The Race: Northern Phaearopes on the Estero, Santa Barbara 
P'rom a photograph, copyright, 1913, by W. I,. Daw.son 
uplifting of the wing. If there is no reciprocal motion on your part, no answer- 
ing gleam of intelligence, the bird's suspicions are allayed, and it resumes its feed- 
ing or its siesta. 
It is usually very necessary to avert the gaze. i\ bird which will suffer your 
mere presence in unconcern at twenty feet, might flee upon tiie iii.stant if it caught 
Fig. 4. Sanderlings at Sandyeands 
the glint of your eye. However innocent your intention, that spark exjjlodes a train 
of sad recollections. You belong to the gun-carrying species. Homo sanguineus 
is your specific name in bird-Latin. Whether sub-species amalrilis or no the bird 
will determine at safer range. The reflecting camera enaliles one to avoid this 
