Hunting in Many Lands 



ly a bear, resembles one so closely that it is 

 classed by the Chinese and Tibetans in that 

 family. It is known to the Chinese as hua 

 hsiung, or "mottled bear," and Milne Edwards, 

 who studied and described it, has called it At- 

 luropus melanoleucus. This animal was, I be- 

 lieve, discovered by that enterprising mission- 

 ary and naturalist, Father Armand David (who 

 called it "white bear"), in the little eastern 

 Tibetan principality of Dringpa or Mupin, in 

 western Ssu-ch'uan.* Five specimens have so 

 far been secured of this very rare animal: 

 three are in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris, 

 the other two in the Museum at the Jesuits' 

 establishment, at Zikawei, near Shanghai. 



The stag or red deer ("horse deer" in Chi- 

 nese) is found in Manchuria and northern Ko- 

 rea, and the Tibetan variety, called shawo, must 

 be very abundant in portions of eastern Tibet, 

 to judge from the innumerable loads of horns 

 which I have passed while traveling through 

 eastern Tibet on the way to China, in which 

 latter country they are used in the preparation 

 of toilet powder. There is also a small deer 

 in the mountains of Alashan, in western Kan- 

 su and Ssu-ch'uan, and in the Ts'aidam ; but I 



* See Nouvelles Archives du Museum de Paris, X., pp. i8 and 20. 

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