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little i)ikas simply swarmed above an altitude of 8.000 feet, and it 

 was only because I was exhausted with tlie difficulty of the country 



Fig. 58.— Skull of the South-Shensi Takin. Collected by Sowerby. 



and the hard work entailed in hunting the Takin that I did not 

 collect more." 



During- July, August, and September an important expedition was 

 made to the lower reaches of the Sungari River and the I-mien-po 



