vi PREFACE 



May it meet with the approval of those to whom 

 it is particularly addressed, viz. the sportsmen who 

 have devoted the best years of their lives to the 

 chase of wild animals in distant countries, and the 

 naturalists, without whose aid the labours of the 

 hunter, so far as science is concerned, might often 

 be undertaken in vain. 



In addition to my own photographs here repro- 

 duced, I am indebted for others to Mr. St. George 

 Littledale, Professor Sapoknikoff (of Tomsk Uni- 

 versity), and Mr. Ford Barclay, to whom my grateful 

 acknowledgments are due, and should here be re- 

 corded. 



DEMIDOFF. 



