Big Game of Mongolia and Tibet 



know nothing concerning it save its Mongol 

 name, bura, and its Chinese, ja;/^/w, or "sheep 

 deer." Prjevalsky, however, gives some inter- 

 esting details concerning it. Some Chinese 

 mention a third variety, called met lu, or 

 "beautiful deer," said to live in the Koko-Nor 

 country. 



The musk deer is found in most parts of the 

 Himalayas and Tibet, and as far northeast as 

 Lan-chou, on the Yellow River, in the Chi- 

 nese province of Kan-su. It is hunted wher- 

 ever found, and nearly all the musk ultimately 

 finds its way to Europt; or America, as it is 

 not used to any great extent by either Tib- 

 etans, Chinese or any of the other peoples in 

 whose countries it is procured; the Chinese 

 only use a small quantity in the preparation 

 of some of their medicines. They distinguish 

 two varieties of musk deer: one, having tusks 

 much larger than the other, is called "yellow 

 musk deer." 



Next in importance among the game of this 

 region we find the Antilope gutturosa and the 

 Ovis burhil, or "mountain goat," which range 

 from eastern Mongolia to western Tibet. Hut 

 more important than these from a sportsman's 

 point of view is the argali, of which Col. Prje- 



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