RHINOCEROS -HUNTING — A SPORTSMAN'S AFRICAN NOTES 



By E. Hubrrt Litchfield 



Those who have visited the African iiall during tlie past two years will have observed 

 on its walls more than three hundred heads of the large game of Africa. These constitute a 

 collection of unusual value mounted by Rowland Ward of London and loaned to the Museum 



by E. Hubert Litchfield, Henry Sampson, Jr. and Bayard Dom 

 field's article which follows is of interest because of his conclu 

 extinction of African large game and because it fm-nishes 

 on the habits of the black rhinoceros. Opinions are likely 

 men and naturalists as to the habits or the dangerovis char 

 wild animal and every new reliable record of habit accom 

 ment of the conditions of the animal's life, the character of 

 season of the year, helps to reconcile these different opinions 

 edge of the species. — Editor. 



inick, Jr. Mr. Litch- 



sion as to the rapid 



personal observations 



to differ among sports- 



acter of any given 



panied by a state- 



the country, the 



in an accurate knowl- 



As a result of a four months' hunting trip in M^M British East Af- 

 rica in 1909, we were able to bring to New ^^K York some thirty- 



Female black rhinoceros (the horns arc of unusual lengthj shot l)y Henry .Sampson, Jr 

 on the Loieta Plains, British East Africa. Rhinoceros-hunting is dangerous in l)rush or 

 tall grass country whore the hunter may at any moment find himself confronted by a 

 vicious-tcmpenul rhino ready to charge. The rhinoceros is doomed to almost im- 

 mediate extinction in tlic plains regions of Africa, since every sportsman considers a 

 rhino a necessary part of his bag and the animals are easy to stalk in open country 



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