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that this section was not entrusted to someone with a wider 

 knowledge of the hunting-grounds of America, and greater 

 experience as a hunter, for Mr. Wolley shows almost on every 

 page that he is not equal to the task which he has set himself. 

 Not only does he omit mention of some of the finest hunting- 

 grounds of the west, but his experience as a hunter has, on his 

 own showing, been of such a limited character, as to deprive the 

 reader of much confidence in his advice. Nor are his observations 

 on the natural history of the animals hunted so accurate as they 

 might have been, some of his remarks on the habits and food of 

 certain species (the Moose and Cariboo, for example) being 

 directly at variance with those of more experienced hunters. The 

 five pages devoted to the Bison are quite inadequate to do justice 

 to it, and some of the statistics given stand in need of correction. 

 Altogether this is a most disappointing chapter. The big-game 

 of America deserved fully as many pages as the big-game of 

 Africa, but while 820 are allotted to the latter, 80 pages only are 

 devoted to the former. 



The account which follows of the big-game of Central and 

 South America (extending to less than three pages !) is simply 

 contemptible. Anyone having knowledge of the literature relating 

 to these countries would have been able to supply a better 

 account than this, without having ever visited the country ! It 

 is to be regretted that this chapter was not undertaken by 

 Admiral Kennedy, whose ' Sporting Sketches in South America ' 

 were noticed sometime since in this Journal.* 



The first volume of the work before us concludes with a 

 chapter on the Musk Ox by Mr. Warburton Pike. So far as his 

 experience has extended, his report is valuable ; but it is merely 

 a personal narrative of an expedition from Fort Eesolution on 

 the southern shore of the great Slave Lake, and does not supply 

 what was needed in a work of the kind before us. By the way, 

 Mr. Pike tells us that he can find no record of the Musk Ox 

 having been seen in Greenland. If he were a reader of ' The 

 Zoologist,' he would have remembered the information on this 

 point afforded by Colonel Feilden.t The southern range of 

 the Musk Ox is now satisfactorily established as far south on 



::: ' Zoologist,' 1893, p. 114. 

 f < Zoologist,' 1890, p. 178 ; 



and 1893, p. 42. 



