A RHINOCEROS MOVING SLOWLY THROUGH THE GRASS OF THE VELT TAKEN WITH 



THE TELEPHOTO-LENS AT A DISTANCE OF I20 METRES, AND WHERE THERE 

 WAS NO COVER. THE ANIMAL LOOKED REMARKABLY LIKE AN ANT-HILL. ON 



ITS BACK ONE SEES A BIRD {SUPHAGUS ERYrHRORHYNCUS, Stanl.) HUNTING 



FOR TICKS. 



Ill 



New Light on the Tragedy of Civilisation 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the 

 United States of America, says in his lately pub- 

 lished work, Out-door Pastivies of an American Hunter : 

 " The most striking and melancholy feature in connection 

 with American big game is the rapidity with which it 

 has vanished." 



He makes a critical investigation of this disturbing 

 fact, and he most strongly advocates restrictive laws and 

 the establishmentof reservations for wild animals. He puts 

 himself at the head of every effort directed towards the 

 protection, as far as may be, of the animal world and of 

 wild nature, and shows by word and deed how even in 

 a brief period remarkable results can be obtained in this 



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