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Bharal, Fseudois nayaur f and Musk Deer Moschus sp P f Avere common 

 everywhere at suitable altitudes. The former were particularly numerous 

 in the hills north-east of Tsiina. On one day's march 1 counted nine herds 

 of Bharal, one of Ouis hodfjAoni and three of Tibetan (razelle. 



* The Mishmi Goral. — Nemorhoedus bailciji, Pocock. A new goral which 

 Mr. Pocock has described in Vol. XXIIl, p. 32, of the Journal, was obtained 

 in the Yigrong Valley. Goral of this colour were plentiful in the upper 

 valleys of the Dibang. The skins, as well as that of the Serow, Takin, and 

 bears, are used as coats by the inhabitants of Po Me. (Fig. A.) 



Serow, Capricornis sp r"! of a dark roan colour are found in Po Me and in 

 the Tsangpo Valley as far up as Shu (E. Long. 93°-2.5'). They were plentiful 

 in the uninhabited country below Gyala. The imperfect skin of a Barking 

 Deer was brought from Tang Me in Po Me which has been identified by Mr. 

 Pocock as Muntiaeus lacrymans. The common Barking Deer is very plentiful 

 in the Dirang Valley and in the portion of Bhutan through which we 

 travelled. 



Tibetan Gazelle, Gazella 2}icticaudata , Hodgs.f were common at suitable 

 places, but there are none on the hills on either bank of the Tsangpo in its 

 lower reaches in Kongbt). We first found them near Lhagyari and they 

 were common in the country to the south of that place. 



* Shou, Cerius ajfiinis, Hodgs. — A specimen with horns in velvet was 

 shot at Chosam in the district of Tsari at about 15,000 feet elevation on 

 the 12th September 1913. Mr. Pocock's note on this specimen, which proved 

 to be a young one, appeared in the " Field " for 3rd October 1914. The 

 measurements were : — Head and body, 67f" ; tail, 3" ; ear, 8|". Height at 

 shoulder 46". Others were seen south of the Tsari range on the marshy plain 

 near Simoneri. In this part of Tibet this stag is veiy local in its range, and 

 appears only to exist in the upper valleys in the holy district of Tsari : 

 further down the valley at Migyitiin (9,630 feet) the forest was very thick 

 and we were told that the Shou was never found there. They occasionally 

 cross the ranges into the valleys to the west, but do not stay there perma- 

 nently. I found a pair of shed horns which measured 54". A stag was said 

 to occur in the forests on the hills above Pe in Kongbo Province and they 

 are common at Gyamda, a town some distance north of our route which we 

 did not visit. I saw horns in the villages of the Loro Karro Valley which 

 were said to have come from the high bare country north of Tsona, but stags 

 had not been seen in this part of the country for many years, and we could 

 hear nothing of them in the Dungkar Valley in the we'st, the only ground in 

 the vicinity which appears suitable. 



Takin^ Budorcas taxicolor, Hodgs. — Inhabit the forest clad slopes, south of 

 the Himalayan range, but do not cross to the north, though they penetrate 

 some distance up the valleys of rivers which break through the range. There 

 were horns in many villages in Pemako and the animal is common here, 

 especially in some valleys which flow into the Chimdro Chu from the north. 

 We saw some small herds in the forests on the bank of the Tsangpo below 

 Gyala, but thej'- do not come further up the valley than that place. They 

 are found in the valley of the Po Tsangpo as far upstream as Trulung, but 

 not above that place and not in the valley of the Yigrong. We heard of 

 them in the lower end of the Tsari Valley and in the valleys flowing from 

 the range south of the Tsari river. Daflas, who crossed the Hmialayas into 

 the Chayul Valley, said that they were common in their country, but that 

 there were none north of the watershed. They appear to migrate with great 

 regularity at certain seasons. One of their routes is in the Anzong Valley 

 (the main northern branch of the Dibang) up which they travel towards 

 the end of May as soon as the melting snow allows them to reach the grassy 

 clearings at the edge of the forest. Another well marked line of migration 

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