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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION, DESCRIPTIONS 

 OF SPECIES, LENGTHS, AND WEIGHTS 



MEASUREMENTS OF HORNS & FIELD NOTES 



For the use of Sportsmen and Naturalists 

 By ROWLAND WARD, F.Z.S. 



AUTHOR OF "the SPORTSMAN'S HANDBOOIC," ETC. 



LONDON: ROWLAND W^ARD, Limited 



"THE JUNGLE," 166 PICCADILLY 



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PRESS OPINIONS. 



" Indian sportsmen, like the brethren in other parts of the world, are always vieing with one another 

 to obtain record specimens of the horns and antlers of great game, as is amply testified by the numerous 

 accounts which from time to time appear in the columns of the Asian. They will, accordingly, be 

 prepared to offer a hearty welcome to the new and greatly enlarged edition of Mr. Rowland Ward's 

 Horn Mcasitrcincnts^ of which the first edition appeared four 5'ears ago. In its present form the 

 work deals with nearly all the species of horned and antlered game, as well as with elephants, rhino- 

 ceroses, hippopotami, and wild boars, together with some of the larger carnivora, such as lions, tigers, 

 leopards, and bears. . . . Some parts of the book read almost like a condensed Natural History. A 

 great improvement, too, may be noticed in regard to the important and interesting subject of the 

 geographical distribution of the various species treated of. The number of illustrations has also been 

 very greatly increased, and some of the figures are really admirable and artistic likenesses of the 

 animals depicted. With such an up-to-date and authentic record before them, sportsmen will in future 

 have an easy task in deciding whether or no their trophies are record specimens. And it is to be 

 hoped that all such as come under this designation will be carefully chronicled and measured. We 

 may also call attention to the careful attention that has been paid to the proper scientific nomenclature 

 of the animals described ; and although we are not always in accord with the necessity for such 

 changes — now that new terms have been adopted by scientific naturalists — it is sincerely to be hoped 

 that sportsmen will likewise use them. The sambur, for instance, is no longer to be designated Cervus 

 Aristotelis, but C. unicoloi — a term admirably adapted to the species. . . . Space forbids allusion to 

 elephants, rhinoceroses, wild boar, and the carnivora, but the e.xtracts we have given are sufficient 

 to show the amount of labour that has been expended on this work, and also how invaluable it will 

 prove to all sportsmen. Although it is quite probable that there are still specimens of large size in 

 private collections that have escaped Mr. Rowland Ward's energetic search, we fear it is only too 

 likely that in the case of most species the record lengths have already been chronicled. The incessant 

 persecution to which large game is now subject in all parts of the world allows but few specimens to 

 attain their full age ; while the diminution in number of the species renders it unlikely that the few 

 which are so spared will be as large as their ancestors. It is, therefore, only too likely that Mr. 

 Ward will receive but few additions to his list of records from specimens to be slain in the future." — 

 The Asian Sporti^ig Neiospaper. 



" In its present extended form the book is a great improvement on its predecessor, and indeed can 

 n,o longer be regarded as a mere list of horn measurements, but forms to a great extent a valuable 

 guide to the distribution— and in some instances to the habits — of the animals coming under the 

 designation of Big Game. As so many additions have been made to the genera and species of African 

 Antelope of late years, to say nothing of emendations of the generic and specific titles of the previously 

 known forms, the book will be found a valuable guide to the group of Ungulates. In it every sports- 

 man will find a mine of interest, and the scientific naturalist will likewise not fail to discover matter 

 worthy of his attention. ... Is a monument of untiring and successful energy on the part of its 

 ^•alX^ox."— Natural Science. 



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