[24] The ibex, which was once also common in Germany, has been found by Dr. G. Merzbacher in the central Tian-Shan region in the form of _Ibex sibirica merzbacheri_: and two years ago by G. Leisewitz in such great numbers that the appearance of flocks of hundreds of them was a daily experience. [25] The Hudson Bay Company put on the market in the year 1891 1,358 skins of the musk ox (_Ovibos moschatus_), but only 271 in the year 1901. In the year 1878 the same company sold 102,715 skins of the Canadian beaver, but only 44,200 in the year 1892. A striking example of the results of excessive exploitation of hunting grounds! [26] Besides other sources, I take these data from an interesting article by C. Brock, in the periodical _Die Jagd_. This writer estimates the area devoted to the chase in the German Empire at 54,000,000 hectares; the number of shots fired in a year at game at 16,000,000, besides some 6,000,000 shots fired at animals that are not game. He rightly notes that for the individual the whole business of sport is a losing or non-productive occupation, but one of productive value for the households of the country folk, as about 130,000,000 marks are annually spent upon it. [27] Professor Haberer lately found strychnine in use in various ways in many places in Eastern Asia. [28] See, amongst other writings of his, _Outdoor Pastimes_, by Theodore Roosevelt. [29] On the destruction of the turtle-dove (_Turtur turtur_, L.) during its migration to Greece, see Otmar Reiser, Curator of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, _Materialen zu einer Ornis Balcanica_. At Syra one sportsman shoots as many as a hundred in a day; at Paxos, according to the Grand Duke Ludwig Salvator, they are killed in heaps. The lands of the Strophades Islands are completely equipped with huge falling snares and shooting-stands for the systematic massacre of the “Trigones.” Everywhere in Greece when the cry of “Trigones!” is heard, fire is opened upon the newcomers. [30] Expeditions in uninhabited districts have sometimes been entirely supplied by shooting wild animals. [31] Cf. Schlobach, _Deutsch-Ostafrikan_. Zeitg. 1 Beiblatt, 10 Februar, 1906. [32] Houston Stuart Chamberlain, _Immanuel Kant_. [33] According to the latest observations of Professor Yngwe Sjöstedt these nut-galls are inhabited by three different species of ants. [34] Cf. also Prof. Yngwe Sjöstedt on the destruction of wild animals by the Boers in the Kilimanjaro district, in the _Täglichen Rundschau_, Berlin, 1906. Professor Sjöstedt travelled through these districts for the purpose of making a collection of their fauna for the Copenhagen Museum, and visited the Merker Lakes with a view to securing a hippopotamus.