102 PHOTOGRAPHY FOR NATURALISTS. 



or any other animals which group themselves naturally, 

 is to have the whole crowd facing the camera. It is 

 almost equally unsatisfactory if they all face in any 

 other direction. Except from a pictorial standpoint 

 little value attaches to a picture of a driven flock. A 

 good photograph of sheep will show them as a flock, 

 but scattered, though still forming the chief point of 

 interest in the picture. If the lambs are about with 

 their mothers, so much the better. It is always a 

 natural history gain to be able to represent adult 

 and young together. It is generally supposed that 

 the original sheep was a mountaineer ; however this 

 may be, the motion of a portly sheep on a steep 

 incline (parts of the South Downs, for instance) is 

 instructive, and it is in surroundings of this kind 

 that the best pictures are likely to be secured 



From the flock of sheep it is a natural transition 

 to the herd of swine. The common pig has been 

 neglected by pictorial workers, but he would form 

 a welcome variant on the common sheep. The 

 " styed " pig is no more to be attempted than the 

 stalled ox. But a herd of pigs,, which embraces all 

 stages between juvenile and adult, will justify the 

 expenditure of many plates. As part of a landscape 

 they " compose " almost as well., as sheep ; as a study 

 they provide infinitely greater entertainment. This is 

 partly a matter of temperament. The independence of 

 the pig is proverbial The writer recalls to mind a herd 

 of swine in a large field, which the swineherd, in view 

 of an approaching homeward journey, was endeavour- 



