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or a bighorn with horns an inch or two larger than the best of his 

 own killing, remains a matter of indifference. 



The line we draw in other departments of sport between the 

 amateur and the professional can, and should be, extended, to the 

 realm of sporting trophies. But in those books that deal with the 

 latter, such as Rowland Ward's " Records of Big Game," we find 

 that the naturalist's rather than the sportsman's interests are 

 consulted, some great pair of antlers bagged in some remote 

 corrie of the Rocky Mountains by a " horn hunter " or " hide 

 hunter," or a giant bighorn head obtained by some nameless 

 meat-hunter's Winchester, ranking, by merit of its superior 

 dimensions, in front of the trophy which rewarded a journey 

 of 10,000 miles and the hardships incidental to sport in the wild 

 regions where such noble game can still be found. In books of 

 this type the name of the owner of the trophy and not that of the 

 sportsman who bagged it, is given if, what is often the case, these 

 two are not identical. 



The great private collections of natural history specimens, 

 highly interesting and useful as they no doubt are, which figure so 

 prominently in these books, can be formed only by rich men, and 

 the collector need not necessarily be a sportsman in the sense of 

 the word here used. 



In the following pages the question of trophies has, in the first 

 place, been dealt with in this spirit, and the reader will find 

 collected together the records of most of the principal spoils of the 

 chase obtained, not only by English, but also by foreign sportsmen. 



What superb trophies could still be obtained half a generation 

 ago could well be seen by the visitor to the American Trophy 

 Exhibition, held, in 1887, at Earl's Court. It was a loan collection 

 the like of which the present generation will probably not see 

 again, for only those who took upon themselves the endless trouble 

 and responsibility of inducing owners of choice trophies to 

 dismantle their walls of their treasures, can form an idea ot the 

 hard work and the immense amount of correspondence it entailed 

 upon those who initiated the movement. 



