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CAPTAIN CTJETIS writes with twenty years' experience of game shooting in the United States and Canada. He admits that he is not a naturalist, but all the same he has studied closely the habits of various animals. Many naturalists might read his chapters with interest if every study of the ways of the animals were not an introduction to the best means of killing it. He deplores the decrease in wild life in America, and believes that big-game hunting in the United States is practically over; he estimates that, outside zoological gardens and the Yellowstone Park, there are only 250 grizzly bears in the United States. The author disparages indiscriminate slaughter, but the destruction of the game is surely in some measure due to the sport of hunting, of which he is so keen an advocate. He cannot expect every hunter to be so careful as he is not to overdo the sport. His own enthusiasm must contribute to the end which he deplores.
American Game Shooting.
By Capt. Paul A. Curtis. Pp. xvi + 279 + 15 plates. (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1927.) n.p.
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American Game Shooting. Nature 121, 277 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121277d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121277d0