Guanaco 

 C. paludosus C. columbianus 



NOTE ON CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN BIG GAME 



There is no lack of game either upon the Pampas or in 

 the forests and along the river-beds of Central and South 

 America, but as yet very few English sportsmen appear to 

 have visited either the seas of grass or the luxuriant tropical 

 forests of Patagonia, Paraguay and the Amazon. Admiral 

 Kennedy, indeed, in his recent book, ' Sporting Sketches in 

 South America,' is, I fancy, the first sportsman pure and 

 simple who has visited these regions and described the sport 

 to be found therein, and it is to be regretted that even he has 

 not had the luck to secure specimens of all the principal beasts 

 known in the country. Others have, of course, written of the 

 Amazon and of the Pampas, but they have been naturalists, 

 who cared more to secure a new mouse than mere trophies ot 

 the chase, however fine. 



According to Admiral Kennedy, the game list of South 

 America includes the guanaco, five kinds of deer, the ostrich 

 or rhea, the jaguar, puma, tapir, wild cattle, and the wild pig. 

 The last two species are, of course, representatives of domestic 

 animals which have become wild, but, unless report belies them, 



