LITTLE-KXO]YX MAMMALS FROM CHINA 



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eonie into this province, and proba])ly 

 is not found south of the Yangtze 

 Eiver. In America, a close relative of 

 these animals is the so-called Eockv 

 Mountain goat. 



Although gorals and serows are com- 

 mon in some regions, nevertheless they 

 are rare in museum collections, and but 

 very little is known of their habits and 

 systematic rela- 

 tionships. The 

 Asiatic Zoolog- 

 ical Expedition 

 secured thirty- 

 two gorals of at 

 least two spe- 

 cies, and seven 

 serows of three 

 species ; with- 

 out doubt no 

 other institu- 

 tion in the 

 world possesses 

 such a repre- 

 sentative series 

 as that now in 

 the American 

 Museum. 



One of our 

 first collecting 

 camps was on 

 the slopes of 

 the Snow 



Mountain, 

 spur of 



a 

 the 



southern Him- 

 alayas, at an 

 altitude of 



gun, having a barrel more than six feet 

 long and a short stock like a golf stick. 

 The butt was placed against the cheek, 

 and the gun fired by holding a piece of 

 burning rope to a powder fuse which 

 })rojected from the side of the barrel. 



The three other hunters carried cross- 

 bows and poisoned arrows. They were 

 remarkably good shots, and at a dis- 

 tance of two 

 hundred feet 

 could place an 

 arrow in a six- 

 inch circle four 

 times out of 

 live. We found 

 later that cross- 

 bows were in 

 common use 

 throughout the 

 more remote 

 parts of Yun- 

 nan, and were 

 only another 

 evidence that 

 we had sud- 

 denly dropped 

 back into the 

 Middle Ages, 

 and with our 

 h i g h - p w e r 

 rifles and twen- 

 tieth century 

 equipment were 

 anachronisms. 



A short time 

 after our tents 

 were up, Mr. 



Mrs. Andrews in front of our camp at the "White 

 Water." The expedition rode two thousand miles on 

 liorsebaek through Yunnan. The tall tent at the left 

 was a dark room for loading and developing photo- 

 graphic plates 



twelve thousand feet, in early October Heller set a long string of traps just 



of 1916. Our tents were pitched in a below snow line, and the next morning 



beautiful open meadow, overshadowed they were full of small mammals. It 



by the white-crowned peaks, not far was a gray day, with dense clouds 



from a torrent of clear water which weaving in and out among the peaks, 



poured down from the snow fields but I went out with the hunters to try 



above, through the dense spruce forest. 

 We had hired four Moso hunters — 

 ragged, picturesque fellows, dressed 

 entireh' in skins — and a pack of mon 



for gorals. We were not more than 

 twenty minutes from camp when the 

 dogs began to yelp, and almost imme- 

 diatelv we heard them coming around 



grel curs led by a splendid red hound the summit of the peak in our direc- 

 as large as a wolf. One of our hunters tion. Suddenly the hounds appeared 

 was armed Avith a most extraordinarv on the side of the cliff, and just m 



