With about ijo Illustrations. One Vo/., uniform with Horn Measurements. 
342 pages. Price 30s. net. 
RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION, DESCRIPTIONS 
OF SPECIES, LENGTHS, AND WEIGHTS 
MEASUREMENTS OF HORNS & FIELD NOTES 
For the use of Sportsmen and Naturalists 
By ROWLAND WARD, F.Z.S. 
AUTHOR OF “THE SPORTSMAN’S HANDBOOK,” ETC. 
LONDON: ROWLAND WARD, Limited 
“THE JUNGLE,” 166 PICCADILLY 
PRESS OPINIONS. 
“ Indian sportsmen, like the brethren in other parts of the world, are always vieing with one another 
to obtain record specimens of the horns and antlers of great game, as is amply testified by the numerous 
accounts which from time to time appear in the columns of the Asian. They will accordingly be 
prepared to offer a hearty welcome to the new and greatly enlarged edition of Mr. Rowland Ward’s 
Horn Measurements , of which the first edition appeared four 3?ears ago. In its present form, the 
work deals with nearly all the species of horned and antlered game, as well as with elephants, rhino¬ 
ceroses, hippopotami, and wild boars, together with some of the larger carnivora, such as lions, tigers, 
leopards, and bears. . . . Some parts of the book read almost like a condensed Natural History. A 
great improvement, too, may be noticed in regard to the important and interesting subject of the 
geographical distribution of the various species treated of. The number of illustrations has also been 
very greatly increased, and some of the figures are really admirable and artistic likenesses of the 
animals depicted. With such an up-to-date and authentic record before them, sportsmen will in future 
have an easy task in deciding whether or no their trophies are record specimens. And it is to be 
hoped that all such as come under this designation will be carefully chronicled and measured. We 
may also call attention to the careful attention that has been paid to the proper scientific nomenclature 
of the animals described ; and although we are not always in accord with the necessity for such 
changes—now that new terms have been adopted by scientific naturalists—it is sincerely to be hoped 
that sportsmen will likewise use them. The sambur, for instance, is no longer to be designated Cervus 
Aristotelis, but C. unicolor —a term admirably adapted to the species. . . . Space forbids allusion to 
elephants, rhinoceroses, wild boar, and the carnivora, but the extracts we have given are sufficient 
to show the amount of labour that has been expended on this work, and also how invaluable it will 
prove to all sportsmen. Although it is quite probable that there are still specimens of large size in 
private collections that have escaped Mr. Rowland Ward’s energetic search, we fear it is only too 
likely that in the case of most species the record lengths have already been chronicled. The incessant 
persecution to which large game is now subject in all parts of the world allows but few specimens to 
attain their full age ; while the diminution in number of the species renders it unlikely that the few 
which are so spared will be as large as their ancestors. It is, therefore, only too likely that Mr. 
Ward will receive but few additions to his list of records from specimens to be slain in the future.”—- 
The Asian Sporting Newspaper. 
“ In its present extended form the book is a great improvement on its predecessor, and indeed can 
no longer be regarded as a mere' list of horn measurements, but forms to a great extent a valuable 
guide to the distribution—and in some instances to the habits — of the animals coming under the 
designation of Big Game. As so many additions have been made to the genera and species of African 
Antelope of late years, to say nothing of emendations of the generic and specific titles of the previously 
known forms, the book will be found a valuable guide to the group of Ungulates. In it every sports¬ 
man will find a mine of interest, and the scientific naturalist will likewise not fail to discover matter 
worthy of his attention. ... Is a monument of untiring and successful energy on the part of its 
author.”— Natural Science. 
