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BIG GAME SHOOTING 



for rhinoceros) to be by nature an extremely stupid beast, and 

 were it not for the birds (Buphaga erythrorhyncha) which nearly 

 always accompany it, and act as sentinels for it, the rhino- 



Dead rhinoceros and gun-bearer 



ceros would be quite the easiest of all game to stalk, and 

 would, in consequence, be far less plentiful than it is. If not 

 accompanied by these birds, there would be no difficulty in 

 approaching sleeping rhinoceroses to within a few yards ; in fact, 



