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Competent observers maintain that if the present 

 needless and unbridled butchery of the caribou is 

 not speedily checked, the extermination of the ani- 

 mals is only a matter of a few years. Meanwhile, 

 Mr. McGrath says that the American hunter is assured 

 of a hearty welcome and satisfying sport. 



That the woodland caribou are still fairly abundant 

 in New Brunswick is attested by the story of "A New 

 Brunswick Caribou-hunt," written by Mr. W. T. Chest- 

 nut, of Fredericton, N. B., and illustrated by photo- 

 graphs taken by the author which show, among other 

 things, a splendid stag shot by a lady who stands be- 

 side it in the picture. The hunt took place last autumn, 

 and the writer says that one day they saw thirty-two 

 caribou before dinner, and later in the day enough 

 more to make the total for the day sixty-four. The 

 animals do not appear to have been very wild ; the 

 hunting was, of course, still-hunting, or stalking, and 

 when the stag fell, the rest of the herd stood around 

 waiting for their chief. 



The shooting-party was in the woods seven days, and 

 saw in that time no fewer than one hundred and fifty- 

 eight canboii.* 



The records which are continually coming out of the 

 woods accompanied by photographs, which show not 

 only the fallen quarry but often live animals also, are 

 wonderfully clever. They give us not only portraits 

 of the animals, but fine pictures of their surroundings, 

 both the foreground detail and pleasing backgrounds, 

 which indicate the character of the field and woods 

 where the quarry lived and died. The camera has be- 

 come an essential in the sportsman's outfit. 



* Field and Stycuin, March, 1 904. 



