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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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DESCENDING AN 0\EH H ANGI NCr CLIFFFrom Keartons Wild Life at Home, copyrighted by Cassell & Co., Ltd. a matter of fact, there are dangers a thousand times greater if lesspicturesque ; such, for instance, as a prosaic little stone, no bigger thanan orange, being dragged out of its bed by one of the ropes when the Photographing Shy Wild Birds and Beasts at Home m photographer is being hauled up a chff, and, after dropping a hundredfeet or so, aHghting pkimp on the head of the unsuspecting cameraman. My brother has had one or two narrow escapes of this kind,though never the shadow of one from a chafing rope. Upon setting forth to photograph the eyries of cliff - breeding
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PHOTOGRAPHING A CORMORAiNTFrom Keartons Wild Life at Home, copyrighted by Cassell cS: Co., Ltd. birds, we equip ourselves with (i) our ropes; (2) a stout crowbar:(3) a good, strong, level-headed assistant (nervous or careless assist-ants should be studiously avoided, as the one kind of man is as dan-gerous as the other), that can be relied upon; (4) a revolver; (5) acamera ; (6) a photographer who. in addition to being a good athlete 112 Bird-Lore and gymnast, possesses no nerves at all, and can, in consequence, standon the very lip of a cliff a thousand feet sheer, as he would do on thegutter edge of a sidewalk, and look straight below him. I would advise all who do not possess the above qualities, moreor less, to leave cliff photography severely alone, as walking back-wards into a yawning abyss, even on the end of a good, stout rope,feels uncommonly like stepping into eternity, and I would not like tohave the blood of any American cousin on my head. Upon reaching the edge of any pre

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