Big Game Shooting, Volume 2

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Author

Phillipps-Wolley, Clive, 1854-1918

Title

Big Game Shooting, volume 2 (of 2)

Credits

Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

SK: Agriculture: Hunting sports

Subject

Game and game-birds

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48816

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48816

Release Date

April 28, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BIG GAME SHOOTING
2. 2.CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE SECOND VOLUME — FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS — WOODCUTS IN TEXT.
4. 4.BIG GAME SHOOTING
5. 5.CHAPTER I ARCTIC HUNTING — I. WALRUS ( Rosmarus trichechus ) — II. THE POLAR BEAR ( Ursus maritimus )
6. 6.CHAPTER II THE CAUCASUS — I. INTRODUCTORY — II. NORTH-WEST CAUCASUS. — III. SOUTHERN SLOPES OF THE CAUCASUS — IV. PLAINS OF THE CAUCASUS
7. 7.CHAPTER III MOUNTAIN GAME OF THE CAUCASUS
8. 8.CHAPTER IV CAUCASIAN AUROCHS
9. 9.CHAPTER V OVIS ARGALI OF MONGOLIA
10. 10.CHAPTER VI THE CHAMOIS — CHAMOIS PRESERVES AND PEASANT-SHOOTS — CHAMOIS STALKING — RIFLES AND KIT — CHAMOIS DRIVING — HISTORY OF THE CHAMOIS AND ITS CHASE
11. 11.CHAPTER VII THE STAG OF THE ALPS — STALKING THE ALPINE STAG
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII THE SCANDINAVIAN ELK
13. 13.CHAPTER IX EUROPEAN BIG GAME — BROWN BEAR HUNTING IN RUSSIAN LAPLAND — BEAR DRIVING IN RUSSIA — AUROCHS HUNTING
14. 14.CHAPTER X THE LARGE GAME OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
15. 15.CHAPTER XI INDIAN SHOOTING — I. INTRODUCTORY. — II. THE BEARS OF INDIA AND BURMAH — III. THE LION ( Felis leo ) — IV. TIGER ( Felis tigris ) — V. PANTHER ( Felis Pardus ) — VI. THE CLOUDED PANTHER ( Felis Diardii vel Macrocelis ) — VII. THE HUNTING LEOPARD ( Felis jubata ) — VIII. THE OUNCE, OR SNOW LEOPARD ( Felis Uncia ) — IX. THE THIBETAN LYNX ( Felis Isabellina ) — X. WOLVES AND WILD DOGS — XI. THE STRIPED HYÆNA ( Hyæna striata ) — XII. ELEPHANT ( Elephas indicus ) — XIII. RHINOCEROS — XIV. THE MALAY TAPIR ( Tapirus malayanus ) — XV. WILD BOAR ( Sus indicus ) — XVI. THE PIGMY HOG ( Porcula salvania ) — XVII. CROCODILES — XVIII. GAUR ( Gavæus Gaurus ) — XIX. BURMESE WILD OX ( Gavæus sondaicus ) — XX. YAK ( Poephagus grunniens ) — XXI. BUFFALO ( Bubalus arni ) — XXII. SAMBUR ( Rusa Aristotelis ) — XXIII. HOGDEER ( Axis porcinus ) — XXIV. SPOTTED DEER ( Axis maculatus ) — XXV. SWAMP DEER ( Rucervus Duvaucelli ) — XXVI. BROW-ANTLERED OR ELD’S DEER — XXVII. THE CASHMERE STAG ( Cervus cashmirianus )— Sterndale, Kinloch . ( Cervus Wallichii )— Jerdon, Ward — XXVIII. THE SIKKIM STAG ( Cervus affinis vel Wallichi ) — XXIX. MUSK DEER ( Moschus moschiferus ) — XXX. BARKING, OR RIB-FACED DEER — XXXI. THE LARGE WILD SHEEP OF INDIA — XXXII. BURREL ( Ovis Nahura vel Burhel ) — XXXIII. SHAPOO ( Ovis Vignei ) — XXXIV. OORIAL ( Ovis cycloceros ) — XXXV. OVIS BLANFORDI — XXXVI. MARKHOR ( Capra megaceros vel Falconeri ) — XXXVII. IBEX ( Capra sibirica ) — XXXVIII.—THE IBEX OF PERSIA AND SINDH ( Capra ægagrus ) — XXXIX. THER ( Capra jemlaica ) — XL. NEILGHERRY IBEX ( Hemitragus hylocrius ) — XLI. GOORAL ( Nemorhædus Goral ) — XLII. SEROW ( Nemorhædus bubalinus ) — XLIII. TAKIN ( Budorcas taxicolor ) — XLIV. THIBETAN ANTELOPE ( Pantholops Hodgsonii — Sterndale , Kinloch ); ( Kemas Hodgsonii — Ward ) — XLV. THE SAIGA ANTELOPE ( Saiga tartarica ) — XLVI. THE THIBETAN GAZELLE ( Gazella picticaudata , Procapra picticaudata — Ward ) — XLVII. INDIAN ANTELOPE ( Antilope Bezoartica ) — XLVIII. THE NYLGHAO ( Portax pictus ) — XLIX. INDIAN GAZELLE ( Gazella Bennetti ) — L. THE FOUR-HORNED ANTELOPE ( Tetraceros quadricornis ) — LI. THE MOUSE DEER ( Meminna indica ) — LII. KYANG ( Equus hemionus ) — LIII. THE WILD ASS ( Equus onager )
16. 16.CHAPTER XII THE OVIS POLI OF THE PAMIR
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII CAMPS, TRANSPORT, ETC.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV A FEW NOTES ON RIFLES AND AMMUNITION
19. 19.CHAPTER XV HINTS ON TAXIDERMY, ETC
20. 20.A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BIG GAME SHOOTING, etc. — Books recommended for perusal
21. 21.FOOTNOTES
22. 22.INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME

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