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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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158 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL outlying country in the daytime. Each evening Dugmore set his flash-Hght cam- eras at this water hole; these were con- trolled on an electric circuit which tripped the cameras and fired the flash simultaneously — and it was here that we had some of our most disheartening trials. Before lea^'ing at dusk we would make repeated tests of the working order of cameras, batteries and flashes, but we were at a loss to understand this mystery, but finally concluded that the night birds in flying down and skimming the surface of the water as they drank, hit the string and fired the flash, but since they were going at considerable speed failed to leave a record on the plate. This, with the fact that one night two lions had rolled in the sand directlv on
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/'//()/() liy A. Itiulclyffe Dugmore Lion with broken back impotently snarling.— When waiting in a blind for antelope Mr. Dugmore suddenly found himself stalked by two lions eighty yards away, and was obliged to use a rifle instead of a camera, breaking the back of one and knocking the other over afterward they would fail to act just at the very moment when tripped by some night prowler. For about ten days we were baffled by most peculiar results. On several mornings we found the flash fired and upon developing the plates discovered a perfect picture of the water hole itself, but not the slightest sign of the creature that had tripped the camera. For days the thread and that another time three rhinoceroses had come down to drink and, although stepping on the thread, had failed to trip the switch, led Dug- more to abandon the automatic principle and adopt the method of sitting up and watching from a near-by tree or con- structed blind — the method by which he finally secured his flash-light pictures of lions and antelope.

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