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Ch'ang-pai Shan, close to the Korean border, may refer to the 

 present subspecies rather than to longipilis. 



Inner Mongolia. "A stuffed tiger's skin used to repose in a temple 

 in Lama Miao (Dolonor) .... It was said that the animal . . . 

 was killed in the streets of Lama Miao itself, having wandered from 

 the Wei-ch'ang, or Hunting Grounds, to the east of that town." 

 (Sowerby, 1923, p. 32.) 



China. Sowerby (1923, pp. 31-32) writes of this Tiger in China: 



How far west it extends is difficult to say, but it certainly reaches the 

 western border of the province of Shansi, in North China, and southward 

 reaches at least to the middle of the southern half of that province. From 

 there it extends northward into Mongolia and in a north-easterly direction 

 through Chihli, where it still occurs in the wilder parts of the Tung Ling 

 and Wei Ch'ang (the Eastern Tombs, and Imperial Hunting Grounds) to 

 the North-east and North of Peking .... 



In North China the tiger is becoming increasingly rare. In 1909 I saw the 

 tracks in the snow of what must have been a very large animal in the 

 mountains of West Shansi, in the Ning-wu district. I also heard of tigers 

 in the Ko-lan Chou area and the Chao-ch'eng Shan, both heavily forested 

 districts further south in the same province. Further south still near P'ing-yang 

 Fu a tiger was killed by the natives about the year 1912. I have seen skins 

 of tigers that were said to have come from the Kuei-hua Ch'eng area in North 

 Shansi, and they were undoubtedly of the true long-haired type. The natives 

 in this area also insisted that tigers occurred there. . . . 



According to Chinese accounts tigers also exist in Kansu, and on the 

 Thibetan border, but I have been unable to get any satisfactory verification 

 of this. It is more than likely that these animals occur for a considerable 

 distance west of Kuei-hua Ch'eng into that little known mountainous country 

 leading to the Ali Shan. 



In the early part of the present century an old native hunter 

 reported the occurrence of three Tigers in the Eastern Tombs forest, 

 in Hopei, during his lifetime. In 1932 a Tiger was killed after it 

 had invaded a shop in the Yu Hsiang district of South Shansi. 

 (Sowerby, 1933, pp. 167-168.) 



Owing to lack of specimens, it has not been determined whether 

 the occasional Tigers reported in Szechwan (cf. Wilson, 1913, 

 pp. 178-179, and Weigold, 1924, p. 74) belong to the North China 

 or to the South China form. ^ 



"Tiger-bones ... are a highly prized Chinese medicine, and are 

 supposed to transmit vitality, strength, and valour to those who 

 partake of them. In the Imperial Maritime Customs Trade Returns 

 of Hankow for 1910 is the following item: 'Tiger-bones, 77 piculs; 

 value, Tls. 6522.' " (Wilson, 1913, p. 179.) 



"It is problematical whether or not predatory animals should 

 be protected in a thickly populated country like China, but it seems 

 a pity that such fine carnivores as the Chinese tiger (Panthera tigris 

 styani Pocock), the Amoy tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis Hilz- 



