44 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66 
The mammals and birds are of great value to the Museum as the 
first adequate representation of a fauna that has particular interest 
in connection with previous work on other parts of the Malay 
Archipelago. Some of Mr. Raven’s Celebean photographs, also that 
of the skull of a babirusa, which he collected, are here reproduced 
(figs. 53 to 57). Early in the summer Mr. Raven returned to America 
and spent several months on vacation and in preparing for further 
explorations in Celebes and other parts of the East Indies. Doctor 
Abbott has generously offered his continued support to this work. 
Mr. Raven left Washington for the east by way of Japan and Singa- 
pore, about the middle of October. Two months later he reported 
from Buitenzorg, Java, that he was making good progress toward the 
collecting ground. 
EXPLORATIONS IN CHINA AND MANCHURIA 
Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby has been very active in China and 
Manchuria. Early in the year he made a short trip to the recently 
opened hunting reserve, about 60 miles northeast of Peking, north 
of the Eastern Tombs, and south of Jehol. Here, he writes, “I 
found a well wooded district which I am convinced contains a lot 
of new stuff. The best thing that I got was a series of squirrels 
of a species quite new to me. They are striped like chipmunks, but 
have a thick, soft, much more grayish fur. They are almost entirely 
arboreal in habits, living in holes in oak trees. These squirrels 
are very active and take enormous leaps from one tree to another, 
though they cannot be said to ‘ fly... There is no cheek pouch as in 
the chipmunks.” He also obtained an interesting hare, and a cat, 
Felis euptilura, not previously represented in the Museum by a good 
specimen. The squirrel is a representative of a group hitherto un- 
known in northeastern China. It has been described as a new species 
under the name Tamiops vestitus. 
In March and April Mr. Sowerby visited the Tai-pei-shan district 
of southern Shensi with the special object of observing the race of 
Takin, a large goat-like animal, peculiar to that region. ‘I am 
pleased to say,” he writes under date of May 29, ‘that I have a 
fine bull Takin (Budorcas bedfordi) for you which I shot at 300 
yards range. It isan enormous animal.” The skull of this individual 
is shown in figure 58. He further obtained a female of the Chinese 
musk deer, now becoming very scarce as the result of excessive hunt- 
ing by the natives: also a few interesting small mammals including 
four pikas, small, lemming-like animals related to the hares. ‘* The 
