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America, a varied and striking collection of hides and 

 horns, skins of the grizzly bear and black bear, horns 

 of the wapiti, moose, cariboo, black-tailed deer, Rocky 

 Mountain goat, and big-horn sheep, and for this he 

 must go further afield, to the magnificent mountain 

 forests and lakes of North British Columbia. It does 

 not matter whether he seeks his sport there or in South 

 Africa, in Khama's country, in Mashonaland, in the 

 Upper Zambesi, or in India. In any of these fields 

 he can amass those magnificent sets of trophies which 

 are now seen in so many sportsmen's homes, and form, 

 merely in transit between the packing-case and the 

 country house, a permanent collection always changing, 

 but never growing less, in the establishments of one or 

 two first-class taxidermists and mounters of skins and 

 horns. The size and splendour of some of these trophies 

 surpass anything seen in museums, except in that Oi 

 Mr. Walter Rothschild at Tring. The mere bulk or 

 some of the animals passes belief, and the magnificence 

 of the furs and horns makes the average Englishman 

 wildly covetous to obtain something himself which 

 shall match them. 



As mere instances of the size of the trophies, we may 

 take, for example, the gigantic elephant's head at Tring, 

 with tusks nine feet long. There is, of course, another 

 side to this quest for trophies. The writer has seen 

 at one of the great taxidermist's the newly-tanned and 



