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the east coast of Greenland as midway between the parallels 

 of 70° and 71°, and will in all probability be found to extend 

 along the coast line of Egede Land to the 65th parallel of 

 latitude. 



Turning to the second volume of ' Big-game,' we find the 

 contents to be of a very varied and interesting nature. Mr. 

 Arnold Pike, writing on ''Arctic Hunting," describes the chase 

 of the Walrus and the Polar Bear. Mr. Wolley deals with 

 the Caucasus, and his chapter is supplemented by Mr. St. 

 George Littledale with an account of the so-called Caucasian 

 Aurochs, although that name is wrongly applied to the European 

 Bison. 



In the two succeeding chapters Mr. Baillie Grohman gives 

 his experiences in pursuit of the Chamois and the Stag of the 

 Alps, and shows himself perfectly familiar with the habits of 

 these animals, and with the wild mountainous country which 

 they frequent. He gives also some curious statistics from old 

 German game books relating to the size and weight of stags, 

 and the number of tines they carried in former days, as com- 

 pared with the degenerate animals which are now obtained by 

 sportsmen. 



Sir Henry Pottinger, dealing with the European Elk, describes 

 the chase of this huge beast in Scandinavia, and Major A. Heber 

 Percy writes on Bear-hunting in Kussian Lapland. This is sup- 

 plemented by a chapter on Bear-driving in Kussia by Lord 

 Kilmorey, and is followed by an account of Bison-shooting in 

 Lithuania. This animal being less known to sportsmen than 

 any other of the European big game, Major Percy's description 

 of its appearance and size, as compared with the Bison of 

 America, is valuable. Referring to a fine bull which he shot 

 as it was driven with a small herd past his hiding-place, he 

 says : — 



"He was much larger than any American Bison I have shot or 

 seen ; his hair was finer, longer, and not so curly ; his colour was a 

 shade lighter, and his horns do not curve at the same angle as those 

 of Bos americanus. His height at the shoulder was about six feet, but 

 he gave me the idea of being a leggier beast than the Bison of America. 

 I saw no difference between them which could not be accounted for by 

 climate and habitat," 



