9 6 PHOTOGRAPHY FOR NATURALISTS. 



except the "stalking" attitudes, there are no posi- 

 tions more suggestive of feline character than those 

 it adopts for repose. It has been suggested, with 

 some show of reason, that the ordinary " tabby " 

 marking is an example of protective mimicry ; the 

 effect of a curled-up tabby being similar to that of 

 a snake. 



The photographer who secures a really satis- 

 factory picture of a cat in the act of " stalking" may 



Sheep. 



count himself lucky. Out of a very large number of 

 snapshots of the subject the writer cannot recall a 

 single one which adequately expressed the silent grace 

 of the movement. It is hard to conceive a more 

 perfect combination of strength, suppleness, and 

 balance, but, as in the photographs of the galloping 

 horse, the camera, in reproducing the present fact, fails 

 to suggest the sense of past or future. All that one 



