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Messrs. Abel Chapman and W. J. Buck, whose recently pub- 

 lished work, 'Wild Spain,' was noticod in this Journal not long 

 since,* supply a short chapter on the large game of Spain and 

 Portugal, amongst which they include the Ked, Boe and Fallow 

 Deer, Chamois, Ibex, Bear, Wolf, Fox, Lynx, and Wild Boar. Of 

 these the greatest prize is the Ibex, not only for the sake of the 



Bison Heads from Lithuania. 



splendid horns he carries, but also on account of the extreme 

 difficulty of stalking and shooting him. The late Sir Victor 

 Brooke wrote of the Pyrenean Ibex : — " They live in the worst 

 precipices I ever saw an animal in, and go into far worse ground 

 than the Chamois. They are very nocturnal, and are never seen 

 except in the dark, or early dawn, unless disturbed." 



We next come to the section on Indian Shooting, by Lieut.- 

 Col. B. Heber Percy, and this occupies the greater portion of the 



* ' Zoologist,' 1898, p. 817. 

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