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Anderson, which precedes it, is most interesting. Avery curious, 

 well nigh incredible, fact is mentioned with regard to the Bears, 

 Grizzly and Black, in the Yellowstone National Park. It is said 

 that the preservation of the game there has unexpectedly 

 resulted in turning a great many Bears into scavengers for the 

 hotels within the park limits. Their tameness and familiarity 

 are astonishing, and they act more like hogs than beasts of prey. 

 Accordingly naturalists have now a chance of studying their 

 character from an entirely new standpoint, and under entirely 

 new conditions. Never before has such an opportunity presented 

 itself. 



With regard to the other chapters in this book, it may be 

 remembered that in 1893 the same editors issued a volume on 

 Big Game Hunting in America. Their second volume, now 

 before us, deals with the pursuit of Big Game in many parts of 

 the world beyond the American Continent, including Russia, 

 Mongolia, Thibet, India, and East Africa. A chapter on Wolf- 

 hunting in Russia, by Lieut. H. T. Allen, of Washington, with a 

 portrait of the " Barzoi," or Wolf-hound, employed in that 

 country, is particularly interesting. 



In another chapter Col. Roger D. Williams, of Lexington, 

 Ky., describes Wolf-coursing in Montana and Wyoming (where 

 the Wolves are stronger and fiercer than those found further 

 south) as one of the most thrilling and exciting sports to be 

 enjoyed. 



These pages, although primarily more attractive to sports- 

 men than to naturalists, are not without interest to the latter, by 

 reason of the measurements and weights which are given of the 

 wild animals described. Thus, in the chapter by Col. Roger 

 Williams just mentioned, we are told that the American Wolf, 

 while not so tall or leggy as the European Wolf, is more compact, 

 with heavier head, coarser muzzle, and smaller ears, and perhaps 

 a little heavier in weight, standing from 29 to 36 inches at the 

 shoulder, and weighing from 85 to 125 lbs. Col. Williams adds 

 that the American Wolf is, when run down to a death finish, a 

 much more formidable foe for dogs than his European relative ; 

 and he arrived at this conclusion, he says, after hunting with 

 high-priced hounds that had won medals in Russia for Wolf- 

 killing, but which demonstrated their utter inability even to hold 

 American Wolves. 



