SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER 



been determined. Much material from all 

 parts of North China will be needed before the 

 status of the North Chinese Suidce can be 

 satisfactorily determined. This seems to be 

 a halfway species between Sus amurensis and 

 Sus moupinensis. 



As detailed accounts of the hunting of these 

 pigs appear in Chapter II, further remarks 

 here are not needed. Sufficient to say that 

 recently some very large pigs have been 

 shot in Shansi, where they are on the increase. 

 Districts where pigs were unknown twenty 

 years ago are overrun now. About ten 

 years ago there was an epidemic amongst the 

 wild pigs in Shansi, when hundreds were 

 found dead by the natives.^ 



Its Chinese name is " Yeh chu," meaning 

 " Wild pig," or " Shan chu," meaning " Moun- 

 tain pig." 



42. Cervus canadensis subs. 



Two specimens, 1 ^, 1 ?. Mountains 30 miles 

 W. of K'uei-hua-ch'eng, N. Shansi. 7,000 ft. 

 At present it is impossible to identify 

 the subspecies to which this deer belongs. 

 From its habitat it would appear to be re- 

 lated to Cervus canadensis asiaticus of Siberia, 

 or to C. canadensis songaricus of the Thian 



^ A similar epidemic has taken plaee this winter (1913-14), 

 so that the pigs have dcercased again. — A. dc C. S. 



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