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Tibet north of Nepaul were adorned with stag horns which, I was 

 told, had been brought from the north, but as the country is bare 

 desert for hundreds of miles in that direction, I think it possible 

 that these horns came from Nepaul. I was unable to bring any 

 horns away as they had become too brittle from exposure to the 

 weather, and in spite of the greatest care, broke in pieces after a 

 few marches. 



MOSCHUS MOSCHIFERUS. Musk Deer. Tib.—" La." 

 A few Musk Deer are to be seen in the Valleys round Gyantse. 

 In the absence of forest in this part of their habitat, they live 

 among rocks. They are plentiful on the ridge dividing Sikkim 

 from the Chumbi Valley and probably at other places in the neigh- 

 bourhood. 



A few other animals may be mentioned here. 

 The Serow Tib. " Gyara" is common in the Chumbi Valley, 

 but difficult to shoot. It is not found above tree level. A photo- 

 graph of one appeared at p. 822 of Vol. XIX of the Journal. 



I have seen a Gooral, which had been killed by a native in the 

 Chumbi Valley, but have never seen one alive myself. 



Wild Yak (Bos grunniens) and Tibetan Antelope (Pantholops 

 hodgsoni) are not found in this part of Tibet at all. In travelling 

 up the Bramaputra, antelope were not seen till about the 85° of 

 longitude, and then in the hills to the north of the river. They 

 were common some distance farther west. The Tibetan name 

 for the wild Yak is "Drong" and for the Antelope "Tso". I 

 have never heard the word " Ghiru " used for this animal in 

 Tibet. 



A bear was occasionally seen by wood-cutters in the Chumbi 

 Valley. A new species of monkey (Presbytis lania) is found in 

 the Chumbi Valley at an altitude of 10,000 feet. The Lynx, Tib. 

 "I" (as the letter E), is found near Gyantse but is rare. A 

 badger, Meles meles canescens was obtained in the Chumbi Valley 

 and the skin forwarded to the Society. 



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