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musk-ox population as a whole. This leads us to hope and 
believe that, through the difficulties involved in reaching 
them, the main bodies of musk-ox of both species are safe 
from extermination. 
Nevertheless the time has come for Canada, the United 
States and Denmark to join in formulating a stiff law for the 
prevention of wholesale slaughter of musk-ox for sport. It 
should be rendered impossible for another “‘sportsman”’ to kill 
twenty-three head in one day, as once occurred. Give the 
sportsman a bag of three bulls, and no more. To this no 
true sportsman will object, and the objections of game-hogs 
only serve to confirm the justice of the thing they oppose. 
Tur Grizzty Brar.—To many persons it may seem 
strange that any one should feel disposed to accord protection 
to such fierce predatory animals as grizzly bears, lions and 
tigers. But the spirit of fair play springs eternal in some 
human breasts. The sportsmen of the world do not stick at 
using long-range, high-power repeating rifles on big game, 
but they draw the line this side of traps, poisons and exter- 
mination. 'The sportsmen of India once thought—for about 
a year and a day—that it was permissible to kill troublesome 
and expensive tigers by poison. Mr. G. P. Sanderson tried 
it, and when his strychnine operations promptly developed 
three bloated and disgusting tiger carcasses, even his native 
followers revolted at the principle. That was the alpha and 
omega of Sanderson’s poisoning activities. 
I am quite sure that if the extermination of the tiger from 
the whole of India were possible, and the to-be or not-to-be 
were put to a vote of the sportsmen of India, the answer 
