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from a photograph, of a dead Giraffe, with Dutch hunters, 

 showing very admirably the relative proportions of man and beast. 

 The Roi Rhebuck moving off (p. 195), and the Wounded 

 Black Wildebeest (p. 228), are spirited drawings of wild animals 

 in motion. The attitude of a Bustard, hovering when disturbed 



Fig. 3. — A Wounded Wildebeest. 



(p. 229), is curious, and is perhaps not confined to the White- 

 quilled Black Khoorhan, of which a larger figure is given on page 

 39 ; and the evening " play " of the Bush Khoorhan (figured on 

 page 58) is described by Mr. Millais as one of the most extra- 

 ordinary aerial feats he has ever seen. Every evening, he says, 

 as the sun approaches the horizon, the Bush Khoorhan rises 



