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fairly abundant iK'ar our camp on the 

 Nam-ting Eiver, nevertheless, because 

 of the dense cover, it was almost impos- 

 sible to kill them without exceptionally 

 good beaters and dogs, and we did not 

 get a specimen until the last month of 

 our expedition. This fine male was 

 shot by Mr. Heller at Watien. a short 

 distance from the Burma frontier. 



The small mammals of Yunnan are 

 exceedingly interesting, but it is not 

 possible here to give even a brief re- 

 view of the species represented in our 

 collections. Insectivores arc always 

 \aluable, and the expedition obtained a 

 surprisingly large number in ""I'unnan. 

 Probably one of our most important 

 acquisitions was a shrewlike animal of 

 tiie genus Hijloinijs. Although ex- 

 tremely rare in collections, our expedi- 

 tion obtained a large series of two 

 s))ecies. 



rrol)ably the most spectacular of the 

 small mammals in this entire province 

 is the great red flying squirrel. It i> 

 found only near the Burma frontier 

 and must be exceedingly abundant in 

 certain localities, for hundreds of skins 

 are sent from Wei-shie to Tali-fu to be 

 tanned and made into coats. The ani- 

 mal is nearly four feet long including 

 its tail, and is of a heautiful mahogany 



j'cd. grizzled with whitish hairs on the 

 back." 



i am especially glad to be able to 

 announce that our collections have 

 re.iched Xew York and the Museum 

 safely, and parts of them have been 

 j)laced on exhibition. When we reached 

 IJangoon and were once more in civi- 

 lization we thought that our difficulties 

 of trans])ortation were ended, but in- 

 stead we found that they had only be- 

 gun. ] ndia was almost cut off from the 

 Pacific. When we arrived at Calcutta, 

 whence ordinarily four or five ships a 

 week are leaving for Singapore, there 

 had been none for two months and it 

 was impossible to learn when another 

 would leave. It was necessary to take 

 our specimens across India to Bombay, 

 and the entire collection was brought 

 home as personal baggage. To anyone 

 in need of excitement 1 would recom- 

 mend traveling with forty-one cases in 

 war time! Had it not been for the 

 name of the American Museum and the 

 wide knowledge of the work which this 

 institution is doing, it would have been 

 impossible to persuade the steamship 

 companies to allow our collection to be 

 ])ut on board the ships when there were 

 Inindreds of thousands of tons of 

 freight awaiting .shipnu-nt. 



Author'.S Note: — The American Museum's Asiatic Zoological E.xpedition left New York in March. 

 1916, for zoological exploration in the province of Yunnan. China. It was financed by the Jesup Fund 

 of the American Museum, by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bernheimer, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Colgate, Messrs. 

 George T. Bowdoin, Henry C. Frick, Childs Frick, Lincoln Ellsworth, and Mrs. Adrian Hoffman Joline. 

 The personnel of the expedition consisted of Mr. Edmund Heller, Yvette Borup Andrews, and myself. 

 Mr. Heller is a collector of wide experience, and his principal work was the collection of small mammals. 

 To his energy and perseverance was due the fact that tlie Museum secured an especially repre- 

 sentative collection which has arrived in excellent condition. Mrs. Andrews, who was in charge of all 

 the photographic work of the expedition, was especially fitted through a long study of color photography, 

 which formed an important part of that phase of the work. My own efforts were devoted to the general 

 direction of the expedition and the hunting of big game. 



During the year spent in the field the expedition traveled 2000 miles on horseback, and camped in 108 

 different localities, at altitudes of from 1500 to 15,000 feet above sea level, along the borders of Tibet 

 and the Burma frontier. About 3000 specimens were collected, consisting of 2100 mammals, 800 birds, 

 and 200 reptiles. Ten thousand feet of motion pictures were made, 400 photographs, and 150 Paget 

 natural color negatives. 



While in the field, the expedition was assisted very materially by the following gentlemen, without 

 whose cooperation it would have been impossible to carry on the work, and it is a pleasure to acknowl- 

 edge here the indebtedness of the American Museum and our personal obligations to them : the Director of 

 the Bureau of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese government; M. Georges Chemin Dupontes, Directeur de 

 I'Exploitation de la Compagnie Fran^aise des Chemins de Fer de I'Indochine et du Yunnan, Hanoi, Tong- 

 king; M. Henry Wilden, Consul de France. Shanghai ; M. Kraemer, Consul de France, Hongkong; Mr. How- 

 ard Page, Standard Oil Co., Yunnan-Fu ; Hon. Paul Reinsch, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordi- 

 nary to tlie Chinese Republic; Mr. H. G. Evans, British-American Tobacco Co., Hongkong; Rev. William 

 Haiina, Tali-fu; Rev. A. Kok, Li-chiang-fu ; Ralph Grierson, Esq., Teng-yueh ; Herbert Goffe, Esq., 

 H.B.M. Consul General, Yunnan-fu ; Rev. H. R. Caldwell, Yenping; Mr. C. R. Kellogg, Fuchow, 

 China; and the General Passenger Agent. Canadian Pacific Railroad, Hongkong. 



