Big Game of Mongolia and Tibet 



southeastern China. I have seen the skin of 

 a small one hanging as an ex voto offering in 

 a lama temple near the Koko-Nor, and was told 

 that it had been killed not far from that spot. 

 Colonel Prjevalsky, however, says that the 

 tiger is not found in northwestern China; so 

 the question remains an open one. 



Leopards, at all events, are common in 

 northeastern and northwestern China, in the 

 hunting parks north of Peking, in the moun- 

 tains of northwest Kan-su and to the south of 

 Koko-Nor. Bears are common from northern 

 Korea to the Pamirs. The Chinese distin- 

 guish two varieties, which they call "dog bear" 

 or "hog bear," and "man bear." The first is 

 a brown bear, and the latter, which is found on 

 the high barren plateaus to the north of Tibet, 

 where it makes its food principally of the little 

 lagomys or marmots, which live there in great 

 numbers, has for this reason been called by 

 Colonel Prjevalsky Ursus lagomyarius. I 

 killed one weighing over 600 pounds, whose 

 claws were larger and thicker than those of 

 any grizzly I have seen. Its color is a rusty 

 black, with a patch of white on the breast. 



Besides these two varieties of bears, there is 

 another animal, which, though it is not proper- 



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