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up the cliff they found it dead, bored neatly through the 

 center of the chest. 



Gorals, sika, and roebuck are by no means the only 

 big game animals in the Tung Ling. Bears and leop- 

 ards are not uncommon, and occasionally a tiger is killed 

 by the natives. Among other species is a huge flying 

 squirrel, nearly three feet long, badgers, and chipmunks, 

 a beautiful squirrel with tufted ears which is almost 

 black in summer and now is very rare, and dozens of 

 small animals. But perhaps most interesting of all the 

 creatures of these noble forests are the only wild mon- 

 keys to be found in northeastern China. 



The birds are remarkable in variety and numbers. 

 Besides the Reeves's pheasant, of which I have spoken, 

 there are two other species of this most beautiful family. 

 One, the common ring-necked pheasant, is very abun- 

 dant; the other is the rare Pucrasia, a gray bird with a 

 dark-red breast, and a yellow striped head surmounted 

 by a conspicuous crest. It is purely a mountain form 

 requiring a mixed forest of pine and oak and, although 

 more widely distributed than the Reeves's pheasant, it 

 occurs in comparatively few localities of north China. 



One morning as Smith and I were coming back from 

 hunting we saw our three boys perched upon a ledge 

 above the stream peering into the water. They called 

 to us, "Would you like some fish?" "Of course," we 

 answered, "but how can you get them?" 



In a second they had slipped from the rock and were 

 stripping off their clothes. Then one went to the shal- 

 lows at the lower end of the pool and began to beat the 



