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 Jan.,1914 DIRECT APPROACH AS A METHOD IN BIRD PHOTOGRAPtlY 7 is dismissed. Moreover, a bird easily suffers a fatigue of attention. It suspects and scrutinizes, and because 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 PHALAROPES ON THE EsTERO, SANTA BARBARA From a photograph, cooyrlght, 1913, by W. L- Dawson uplifting of the wing. If there is no reciprocal 1notion on your part, no answer- ing gleam of intelligence, the bird's suspicions are allayed, and it resrunes its feed- ing or its siesta. It is usually very necessary to avert the gaze. A bird which x,,iil suffer your mere presence in unconcern-at twenty feet, might flee upon the instant if it caught Fig. 4. SANDERLINGS AT SANDVLANDS the glint of your eye. However innocent your intention, that spark explodes a train of sad recollections. You belong to the gun-carrying species. Homo sanguicus is your specific name in bird-Latin. Whether sub-species areabills or no the bird will determine at safer range. The reflecting camera enables one to avoid this