BLACK-HEADED HERONS {ARDEA MELAOCEPHALA. VIG. Childr.). 



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Rhinoceros^hunting 



MANY sportsmen of to-day have no idea what 

 numbers of rhinoceroses there used to be in 

 Germany in those distant epochs when the cave-dweller 

 waged war with his primitive weapons against all the 

 mighty animals of old^ — a war that came in the course 

 of the centuries to take the shape of our modern sport. 



The visitor to the zoological gardens, who knows 

 nothing of " big game," finds it hard perhaps to think 

 of the great unwieldy '' rhino " in this capacity. Yet I 

 am continually being asked to tell about other experiences 

 of my rhinoceros-hunting. I have given some already 

 in With Flashlight and Rifle. Let me, then, devote 

 this chapter to an account of some expeditions after the 

 two-horned African rhinoceros — one of the most interesting, 

 powerful, and dangerous beasts still living. 



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