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or clotted tiger's blood. The heart of the tiger is supposed to impart to the 

 consumer the courage and strength of the tiger itself. 



On this account the tiger has been hunted till he is almost extinct in 

 most districts of North China, where once he was common, and now 

 survives, even in Manchuria where he was once plentiful, only in the more 

 remote and inaccessible forest areas, such as the Ch'ang-pai Shan, the Khingan 

 Mountains, or the more or less unexplored and thinly settled areas of the Amur 

 and Ussuri. . . . 



Formerly the tiger was extremely plentiful in all the forested areas of 

 Manchuria. Indeed, it is said, they were so plentiful along the route of the 

 western portion of the Chinese Eastern Railway when under construction, 

 that they became a positive pest, killing and carrying off workmen, till a 

 regiment of Cossacks had to be sent to cope with the situation. . . . 



In the forests of North Kirin and in Central and Western Heilungkiang 

 tigers are killed by the local hunters every winter. 



The same author adds (p. 33) that the Russian hunters in Man- 

 churia track the Tiger down in the snow, camping on its trail and 

 following it for as much as ten days or a fortnight. The Chinese 

 usually employ traps, pitfalls, and poison. 



Mongolia. In view of the fact that one of the names applied to 

 the present subspecies is "Mongolian Tiger," it is surprising to find 

 such a dearth of definite records from that wide country. According 

 to Ognev (1935, p. 292), Radde (1862) reported the Tiger from the 

 district of Uriankhai (the present Tannu-Tuva) , but later explorers 

 have not found it there. (The subspecies of this region has not been 

 determined.) Various other references in the literature to Tigers 

 in Outer Mongolia give no information as to specific localities. 

 Apparently the only likely areas for their occurrence are in north- 

 eastern and eastern Mongolia, along the Siberian and Manchurian 

 boundaries. 



Korean Tiger; North China Tiger 



PANTHERA TIGRIS COREENSIS (Brass) 



Felis tigris coreensis Brass, Nutzbare Tiere Ostasiens, pp. 4-5, 1904. (Korea.) 



(Fide Kuroda, 1938, p. 40.) 

 FIGS.: Ford Barclay, 1915, pis. 84, 85; Sowerby, 1923, pi. 2 (coreensis^); 



Sowerby, 1933, pi. facing p. 166; Ognev, 1935, pp. 285-286, figs. 129-131. 



This Tiger apparently occurs in small numbers from Korea and 

 southern Manchuria westward through the eastern border of Inner 

 Mongolia and through North China. Its southern limits, where it 

 presumably intergrades with the South China form, are not definitely 

 known but perhaps may be roughly fixed at the divide between the 

 Hwang Ho and the Yangtze Kiang Basins. 



The North China form differs from the Manchurian Tiger "in 

 being smaller,- much darker and more fully striped and in having a 

 shorter less woolly winter coat" (Pocock, 1929, p. 531). 



