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Jan.,1914 DIRECT APPROACIt AS A METHOD IN BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY 9 water at Laguna Blanca, a small, semi-artificial lakelet of some sixty acres, near Santa Barbara. In endeavoring to stalk them, the birds became so thoroughly frightened that they were on the point of quitting the neighborhood, and were ........ Fig. 6. THE IBISE$1 THE FIRST SHgT AT 1? FEET Fig. 7. Two JACKERS: WItITE-FACED GLOSS]/ IBISES AT LAGUNA BLANeA; TAKEN AT A RANGE OF ABOUT ?0 FEET only induced to reconsider by my own ostentatious withdra?val in the automobile. Noting from a distance of half a mile their gradual return and final precipitation, I turned back and in a circle of the boulevard surrounding the lake discovered