ORDER CARNIVORA: CARNIVORES 299 



Manchurian Tiger; Siberian Tiger; Amur Tiger; 

 Mongolian Tiger 



PANTHERA TIGRIS LONGIPILIS (Fitzinger) 



Tigris longipilis Fitzinger, Sitz.-ber. Akad. Wiss. [Wien], math.-nat. Cl., 

 vol. 58, pt. 1, p. 455, 1868. ("Korea and Japan through northern China, 

 Manchuria, Mongolia, and Dzungaria north to southern Siberia, and west 

 through northern Tatary, Bokhara, and northern Persia to Mount Ararat 

 in western Armenia"; type locality restricted by Lydekker (1901, p. 288) 

 to "Amurland." Cf. Harper (1940, p. 194).) 



SYNONYM: Felis tigris var. amurensis Dode (1871). 



FIGS.: Pocock, 1929, pi. 4, pi. F (upper fig.); Morden, 1930, p. 548, fig.; 

 Pocock, 1937, p. 770, fig. 



This Tiger, whose principal range is in northern Manchuria and 

 southeastern Siberia, seems to be declining rather rapidly in numbers. 



It is somewhat larger and has a longer and thicker coat than 

 the Bengal Tiger; ground color paler; stripes less pronounced and 

 tending to become brown on the flanks. It is said to reach a length 

 of 13-14 feet. 



Siberia. The following information is from Ognev (1935, pp. 

 292-293). Radde (1862) found the species along the Argun River 

 near Ust Strielka and near Nerchinskiy Zavod. Baikov (1925) 

 places its northern limits at the Shilka and the lower Zeya and 

 Bureya Rivers. It is numerous in certain parts of the southern 

 Ussuri district. A specimen in the Zoological Museum of the Uni- 

 versity of Moscow was said to have been taken in 1828 near Ba- 

 lagansk, west of Lake Baikal (Severtzov, 1855). (This record can 

 not be definitely allocated as to subspecies.) 



Ford Barclay (1915, pp. 225-228) gives the following account: 



Careful inquiries made in the summer of 1899 along the present route of 

 the Siberian Railway, as far as Chita and Niertschinsk on the Amur and 

 thence east along that river as far as Khabarovsk, elicited practically no 

 information .... 



At Khabarovsk . . . plenty of information was forthcoming, and many tales 

 were floating about of the depredations of these animals during the winter 

 in close proximity to, and even in one case within, the town itself. . . . The 

 best ground was reported to be in the neighbourhood of Irma, ... a little 

 more than half-way to Vladivostok, [where large numbers of Wild Pigs 

 attracted the Tigers.] 



At Irma I learnt that a number of skins were undoubtedly brought in every 

 winter, but it was believed that in most cases their wearers had been accounted 

 for by poison. . . . 



In 1899 it was still not uncommon to find fresh footprints of tiger on a 

 winter's morning in any of the outlying streets of Vladivostok .... 



In the mountainous district between Harbin and Vladivostok a certain 

 number are poisoned by the natives every winter. 



According to Sowerby (1923, p. 31) , this Tiger occurs throughout 

 the forested areas of the Amur and the Ussuri, into Primorsk in the 



