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also help in the sport, and are more feared by the quarry than 

 one would be apt to imagine. Advantage is also often taken 

 of the fact that the tiger is not a climbing animal to shoot him 

 from a secure station in a tree, a ooat or buffalo-calf havino- 



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been previously tied up within easy range to serve as a " bait ". 

 Although justifiable for the destruction of man-eaters, this can 

 hardly be dignified by the name of " sport ". 



The different species of Bear [Ursjis) are hunted, and also 

 slaughtered in a variety of ways, but do not take a very high 

 place in the estimation of most sportsmen. In parts of Russia, 



Fig. 1264. — Fox {Canis Tii/pcs) 



for example, Brown Bears {^Ursus arctos) are considered to be 

 " vermin ". The Lapps, however, do not hesitate to attack this 

 animal in its den, a method sufficiently dangerous and excitincr to 

 satisfy the most exacting in such matters. 



The European Wolf [Caiiis lu-hus) is the object of more than 

 one form of popular Russian sport. A favourite variety involves 

 the use of fox-hounds and wolf-hounds, the former being em- 

 ployed for drawing the coverts, and the latter for the actual 

 work of coursing. As previously mentioned (p. 369), the Kirghiz 

 practise a species of falconry, of which the wolf is a favourite 

 quarry. 



The Fox {Canis zmlpcs, fig. 1264) is familiar to all as the 

 object of one of the most popular, sociable, and exhilarating 

 forms of British sport, but Lord Granville Gordon tells us (in 

 Spoilt in Etiropc) that "it is doubtful if fox-hunting can long 



