manufacture of large drums, and also of the better class of saddles. The 

 guns used by native hunters are so inferior that little is done in the way of 

 hunting this formidable beast, which when only slightly wounded seriously 

 menaces the life of its assailant. It seldom attacks unless provoked, but I 

 have more than once heard of a pig charging some harmless woodcutter and 

 inflicting serious wounds. I have frequently come across pigs' nests in the 

 form of great heaps of dried branches piled over a pit in the ground. In this 

 the sow produces her large litter of prettily striped young. 



With a few odd roedeer skulls and a fine specimen of David's squirrel 

 the collection was completed. The country between Yen-an Fu and 

 T'ai-yiian Fu in Shansi presented no facilities for collecting. In all some 250 

 mammals were taken representing thirty-four species and sub-species, of 

 which five have been described as new by Mr. Miller in the appended paper. 

 (Appendix ii.). Several species in the collection, though possessing peculiari- 

 ties, were so poorly represented that it was not deemed advisable to describe 

 them as new. 



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