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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 of 
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. 
