The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26

Valuable bird Photographs Taken About
Tails CIty-The Camera for Sportsmen.

Valuable bird Photographs Taken About
Tais CIty-The Camera for Sportsmen.
"A unique and very valuable collection OF
photographs Is said to have been made last
spring and summer by II young naturalist in
and around New York city. 1t Is composed
entirely of photographs taken with one of the
dwarf cameras, and each picture Is less than
two inches square. Nothing but birds and
bird nests are shown. While no rare nests
are exhibited. there Is a variety such as would
gla tden the nidologist's eyes. English SPAR
rows ana their homes are shown and the variety
of places selected for the nests is not euualled
by any Of the others. although robins'are fire..
jewellers. One OF the latter is shown on It's
nest on a broken wagons tongue beside n New
Jersey road. Another's nest is on a tin can
nailed to the side of n barn. Why the bird
did not build IN the can is an open question.
A golden winged woOIpecker's head is shown
and a crows nest is, dim'y shown in the top Of
a cedar tree up on the Palisades; An odd pic
hawk. which were Photographed as they lay on
the tin roof OF an uptown residence. 1t was
ncs @it1 so.. l to T tSas 81 ssis Tbs Snowl. sps thu the
man gained while making the collection was
q good deal more than he had ever thought
possible to acquire about the CITY.
It has been the desire of every amateur pho
tographer OF hunting scenes to catch a ~p!ictnre
a bullet or shot, hut the difficulty has been so
great that such a picture has never been made.
although hundreds of plates have been ex-
posed. From these have been printed some
mighty fine pictures of hunting scenes show
ing the game tumbling through the air. or
just before IL was hit. Naturally most OF the
pictures were of birds. since II Is difficult to
catch a mammal In any hut the shadows Of
tho woods. A year or SO ago Forest and Stream
showed n picture of n hig buck swimming for
life, with the waves rolling away on either side
and n wake astern that told of considerable
speed. The Sp0tfsmcn's RcUicr has n picture
showing Col. Robert Buchanan of ST. Louis
killed 1. seen dimly through the cloud OF black
Francis River near Paragould. Mo. The 9th.
or bird had 1nst begun to tumble when the
camera clicked. and Is far above the smoke
line. Although the gun had Just been fired,
there IL 70 smoke coming OUT of the muzzle.
This corroborates the theory Of some hunters
that II is the thrush Of air that causes n gun
70 kick. A third duck Is Just jumping from
tho water. II the shooter had had a three
barrelled shot gun. he might have made a
treble instead or a double at the birds.
There are few pictures OF men shooting at
big game. although there are plenty of big
game pictures taken both before and after
death. There Is one advantage about the cam
era which no sportsman overlooks. and that Is
that there Is no close season for his game. An
other ADVANTAGE. is that there Is no danger Of
killing anybody by accidental shots. Many a
SPORTSMAN takes q camera alorg on his hunting
end In Wow than to please the natives by taxi
ing pictures OF their wives. children, favorita
dogs. or cattle, and the scheme always works
like n oh Arm.