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him being chloriformed. He was afraid of 
nothing;, and would hunt till he dropped. 
The dachshund is the best dog- in my opinion 
of all, as he is so slow and small the boar are 
not inclined to hurry; he has a wonderful nose 
and perseverance in hunting a wounded boar, and 
he is not afraid to tackle the boar. 
I know of one small dachshund who tackled 
one of the litter of an old sow; the sow turned on 
him and he seized her by the nose. When the 
keeper came up the dog was still hanging on to 
the sow's nose, although she had ripped him 
open and his entrels were hanging out. 
The country where boar are shot is very 
dense woods, with narrow rides cut in them, and 
and occasional more open spot; a country utterly 
unridable, it being also generally deep in snow 
during the boar shooting time. 
The difficulty is to break the dogs of running 
riot, i.e., hares, roe deer and foxes. 
The shooting is done with rifles, snap shoot- 
ing at the head and shoulders of boar going at 
top speed, taking care not to shoot sows or too 
young boar. 
The style of rize shooting, lying down and 
aiming at a stationary bull's eye, is useless is boar 
shooting, though it may sometimes be useful in 
deer-stalking. 
A good rabbit shot, with a shot gun, will do 
better even if he has never handled a rifle before, 
than the man who can make the highest possible 
score with a rifle lying down, but has never prac- 
tised at moving objects. 
Note on the present state of the Live 
Foreign Animal Market in Europe. 
By G. DE Southoff. 
(Translated from the Bulletin of the French National 
Acclimatization Society, July, 1915, by F. Finn.) 
The sale of living foreign animals is a fairly 
lucrative and very interesting trade. Unfortun- 
ately it is not yet organised in France, and a good 
number of naturalists and acclimatizcrs have some 
difficulty in obtaining the specimens they want, 
even by offering to pay a high price for them. As 
may have been noted on several occasions in this 
Bulletin, this trade is almost entirely in the hands 
of England and Germany. We propose to take 
a broad survey of it, and pass its present condi- 
tions in review, hoping that the acquaintance with 
these will encourage and facilitate, among the 
dealers of the allied countries, the development of 
this by no means insignificant branch of trade, 
to their own advantage and that of their 
customers. 
In Germany dealers in live foreign animals 
are very numerous. The general idea is that 
Hagenbeck, of Stellingen, near Hamburg, is the 
most important, and to a certain extent this is 
true. Hagenbeck is the largest of best-known 
dealers in savage animals; but others, like Ruhe, 
of Alfeld, who has a branch at New York, August 
Fockelmann and Kuntzschman, of Hamburg, 
Dcrenburg, of Halle, and many others, sell wild 
animals, and their importations of small mammals 
in particuar, are quite numerous as well. When 
old Karl Hagenbeck was alive, he maintained the 
supremacy of his business, and gave it what the 
modern Teuton dealers like to call an " American" 
extensiveness. He even had attached to his es- 
tabishment a naturalist commissioned to makei a 
scientific study of the animals he received. But 
his sons have different ideas of their trade, more 
practical perhaps, and certainly more remunera- 
tive. Twenty years ago the bird market had 
reached its highest position, thanks to the bird- 
trade which Hagenbeck's sister carried on at 
Hamburg, and which resulted, we may as well 
admit, in many very interesting importations. At 
the present moment, there are at Hamburg, Ber- 
lin, Leipzig, Ulm, etc., wholesale: bird dealers 
doing a large trade at very reasonable prices. At 
Hamburg and Altona, too, there arrive, huge 
quantities of living fish and other aquarium ani- 
mals, by the sale of which numerous dealers carry 
on business. These used to import new species 
every year, mostly from tropical Asia and America, 
some of which were very rare. 
As to the trade in Reptiles and Batrachians, 
from Pythons to small Lizards, and from giant 
Salamanders (Megalobatrachus) to foreign Tree, 
frogs (Hylae), it was almost the monopoly of the 
German and Austrian dealers. These were to be 
counted by tens, and were very well found, sending 
out to their patrons very complete price-lists, 
fortified with Latin names. The most important 
are Scholze and Poetzsche, of Berlin, whose 
premises occupy two floors of a building, with a 
lift, and whose up-to-date catalogue contains 
photographs which many works on herpctology 
would envy. These houses deal more particularly 
in foreign Reptiles and Batrachians, but also in 
European species, at incredibly low prices. Some 
used, in addition to their usual trade, to deal in 
Insects and other Invertebrates, and supplied at 
low rates Orthoptera, Coleoptera, Myriapodsi, 
Arachnids, Gastropods, etc., from hot climates. 
In England,, where the love of living .animals 
is so wide-spread, from young Miss's pel to the 
rich Lord's menagerie or zoological garden, the 
animal trade has always flourished exceedingly. 
The ancient renown of Cross, of Liverpool, per- 
haps fairly surpasses Hagenbeck's. I may men- 
tion also, in London, the Jamrach's, and J. D. 
Hamlyn, the greatest importer of Monkeys in 
Europe. 
