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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. G. Lacy, writing to ■ South Africa,' has endeavoured to make a 

 calculation as to how many Elephants have been killed in South Africa by 

 white men. From careful study he has made the following list of those 

 who have killed a hundred or more, but of course there must be others that 

 could be added. : — 



H. Hartley 600 



F. Green 500 



J. Dunn 400 



G. Wood 400 



Jan Viljoen 400 



Piet Jacobs 400 



C.J.Anderson 350 



M. Zwartz ... 300 



J. Chapman 250 



J. Cane 200 



S. H.Edwards 200 



F. C. Selous 200 



W. C. Oswell 200 



W. Finnaughty 200 



H. Larsen 200 



P. Zietsman 200 



R. Benningfield 150 



J. H. Wilson 150 



W. C. Baldwin 100 



Gordon Cumming ... 109 



A. Ericksson 100 



D. Hume 100 



W. Jennings 100 



T. Jennings 100 



R. Lewis 100 



H. Wahlberg 100 



J. Lee 100 



W. Hartley 100 



T. Hartley 100 



H. Ogle 100 



J.Todd 100 



H. Smuts 100 



J. Gifford 100 



H. Fynn 100 



G. Shadwell 100 



R. Dubois 100 



G. A. Phillips 100 



C. Van Royen 100 



He also believes that quite a hundred have killed between 50 and 100 — say 

 7000 Elephants ; and if 5000 are added for men who have shot less than 

 50 each, we arrive at about 20,000 Elephants. Except in the last item, 

 this is not so much mere guesswork as some might suppose, for, though 

 hags, whether fur, feather, or fish, are always to be received with caution, 

 yet the above is considered fairly accurate for one reason, that, except in 

 the cases of Selous, Cumming, and Baldwin, they do not rest on the testi- 

 mony of the men themselves. One Matabele hunter, who 6hall be name- 

 less, told the writer that he had shot 400, when to his certain knowledge 

 40 would cover his bag. Cane, Ogle, and Fynn date back to 1825-35, and 

 Hume to 1830-40, but all the rest from 1850 to 1880, when Elephant 

 hunting was practically over as a business. Mr. Lacy doubts if any one 

 man has killed a hundred since that date, though perhaps numbers make 

 the claim. 



We heartily welcome the first number — published this month — of Mr. 

 Howard Saunders's second edition, revised, of his ■ Illustrated Manual of 

 British Birds.' Both book and author are sufficiently well known to require 

 no further comment, and we hope to notice the whole work at the com- 

 pletion of its twentieth number. 



