our 
FOREWORD. 
are few simple aids to the study of 
birds. “ With Nature and the Camera” 
has not had the indulgence it should have had given 
to it. Too few of as see the animals of our country 
as they really are, and, may be, this booklet will help 
to focus our eyes, in a general way, on the wild birds 
of our land. Certainly it simply opens the wide field 
before us, but it is a beginning, ooooooooo 
My fellow-naturalist, Mr. A. H. Mattingley, has 
very generously placed at my disposal the use of most 
of the subjects. My thanks and a general apprecia¬ 
tion will be the reward of many hours’ labour in the 
obtaining of each picture. Birds are suspicious of 
strangers—which means the photographer must wait 
hours, or days, before he can, as a rule, have any 
marked success with them and his camera. This 
pleasant burden Mr. Mattingley has had to carry 
with a large number of his subjects, o o o o o o o 
The Albatross pictures were taken by the late 
Mr. H. P. C. Ashworth; the first of which, the 
frontispiece, cost no less a time than twenty days in 
the obtaining of it. Twenty hours were spent in 
securing each of many of the other plates. o o o o 
The remaining pictures are by my own camera, 
in conjunction with Mr. Arthur B. Lord, a third 
lover of nature. They are unique and mostly rare 
subjects. The birds are all Australiani o o o o o 
FH.HERE 
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