The Bonaparte Gall 
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 Photo by the Author 
CIRCE 
BONAPARTE GULL IN WINTER DRESS 
“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-scientihc pursuit. 
It is for this reason that the author offers herewith a gallery of 
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