GREAT-GAME FIELDS 



Suppose, after having thus casually strolled across 

 the world in pursuit of a big-game trophy, we pass 

 into the South Sea Islands country and stop, say, 

 at New Zealand. It may seem strange to you to 

 hear that in case you really need a good elk head or 

 a specimen of red deer, New Zealand might be the 

 best place for you to go; because, if you are at all 

 posted on your natural history, you will know that 

 there were no land animals at all native to New 

 Zealand, except two species of bats and bats are 

 not big game, outside Broadway. 



In 1862 the gentlemen of New Zealand concluded 

 to see what they could do by way of establishing 

 sport on that continent. At that time they imported 

 red deer from Great Britain. In one district now 

 there are ten thousand of those deer, fine specimens, 

 and a few of them are now allowed to be killed 

 annually. In one district there are said to be forty 

 thousand fallow deer, also the product of a little 

 stock imported from the British Isles. Black-tailed 

 deer and elk, imported from America, are also thriv- 

 ing equally well in New Zealand. In short, New 

 Zealand knew the value of big game ; Americans did 

 not. 



The rainbow trout was introduced into New 

 Zealand from California in the early eighties, and 

 today New Zealand is the best trout region of all 



