86 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. ix. 



bird photogra])hers have already been described ad 

 nauseam in the halfpenny press, and as 1 do not want 

 to be suspected of a desire to compete in these 

 journalistic flights, I will observe merely that the Yenesei 

 mosquito is not an epicure. Oil of lavender, essence of 

 cloves, and all the nice things that English chemists sell 

 as preventatives, make him sing ^ith pleasure as he 

 settles (out of sight) on your neck or wrist, and when 



ASIATIC GOLDEN TLOVEK. 

 [Photographed by Maud D. Havilai.d.) 



he is really liungry, as he was on the morning that these 

 photographs were taken, he Avill gladly plunge his 

 ])roboscis through the thick layer of Stockholm tar 

 and lard that you have smeared on your skm, to the 

 detriment of your complexion, in the vain hope that it 

 will baulk him of his luncheon. 



One of the birds A\as remarkably tame, and by means 

 of a 14 in. lens I secured a series of jDhotographs. of which 

 the accompanying illustrations are examples. The other 

 bird, M'hich was in poor plumage, kept its distancs, but 



