A riiini:>i.i:k()s mox'inc; slowi.v thkiU'.h the crass of the \'elt — taki:x wiih 



THE TELEPHOTO-LENS AT A DISTANCE OF 1 20 METRES, AND WHERE THERE 

 WAS NO COVER. THE ANIMAL LOOKED REMARKABLY LIKE AN ANT-HILL. ON 



ITS BACK ONE SEES A -BIRT>^{/JUP^--1GC-S ERVTHRORHrXCLS, Staill.) HUNTING 



FOR TICKS. 



II 



New Light on the Tragedy of Civihsation 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the 

 United States of America, says in his lately pub- 

 lished work, Out-door I\jsliiucs of an Aiiici'ican Hunter : 

 " The most striking and melancholy feature in connection 

 with American big game is the rapidity with which it 

 has vanished." 



He makes a critical investigation of this disturbino^ 

 fact, and he most strongly advocates restrictive laws and 

 the establishment of reservations for wild animals. He puts 

 himself at the head of every eftbrt directed towards the 

 protection, as far as may be, of the animal world and of 

 wild nature, and shows by word- and deed how even in 

 a brief period reniarkable results can be obtained in this 



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