SPORT AND SCIENCE 
were secured. The former of these turned out 
to be a new species, and it is very rare. 
On June 26 we left Ning-wu Fu, travelling in an 
easterly direction as far as a small town named 
T’ai-niu-tien, after spending the night at which 
place we continued as far as Hsin Chow in a 
south-easterly direction. From here two easy 
stages brought us to T’ai-yiian Fu on June 30. 
We had been away for five months, during 
which time we had not set eyes on a European 
other than ourselves, had completed a circuit of 
considerably over one thousand miles, and had 
made a collection of three hundred and fifty 
mammals including thirty-three species, twelve 
of which were subsequently described as new. 
Some dozen species of reptiles and batrachians 
were also secured, besides a small collection of 
birds. 
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