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The camp of tliu uxpodition on the Snow 

 Mountain at an altitude of twelve thousand feet. 

 The tents were pitched just at the edge of the 

 dense spruce forest, in a beautiful open meadow, 

 not far from a torrent of snow water which 

 poured down from the peaks above. The first 

 goral was killed just at the edge of timber line, 

 on the cliff shown at the left of the picture 



and the Mekong did not act as effective 

 iKirriers to migration. 



Wlierever there are main caravan 

 roads through the province, the entire 

 country for miles around has been de- 

 forested, and it is necessary to go far 

 into the interior, away from traveled 

 routes, l)efore good collecting regions 

 can be found. Even then the hunting 

 localities are widely separated, and 

 although one camp may prove an espe- 

 cially good one and a rich collection 

 may be made in a few days, at other 

 times it is necessary to travel for a fort- 

 night before finding a place where one 

 can catch even a mouse. It is during 

 such days of discouragement that one 

 realizes a field expedition is not all 

 pleasure, and the specter of "making 

 good'' to the ^Museum looms large be- 

 fore one. But at the end all the hours 

 of unhappiness are forgotten, and only 

 memories of delightful days in the wil- 

 derness remain. 



The Asiatic Zoological Expedition 

 was fortunat(> in obtaining specimens 

 of almost all the large game known in 

 the province, with the exception of 

 shce]) and wapiti. We were never in 

 the I'cizioii where the former occur, and 

 when liimting the latter the weather 

 became so cold, and snowstorms were of 

 such frequent occurrence, that our Lolo 

 natives refused to work, and without 

 llu'in we could do nothing. In all parts 

 of China wapiti are rare, because their 

 growing horns have such medicinal 

 value that the animals are hunted ener- 

 getically during the summer, and in 

 some localities have been absolutely ex- 

 terminated. A pair of antlers in the 

 velvet is worth about one hundred and 

 fifty dollars Mexican. 



Probably the most interesting of all 

 the mammals in Yunnan are the gorals 

 and serows, the so-called "goat ante- 

 lopes," which are found only in Asia, 

 and form an intermediate stage between 

 the true goats and the antelopes. An- 

 other interesting member of this group 

 is the takin. which, however, does not 



