SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER 
been determined. Much material from all 
parts of North China will be needed before the 
status of the North Chinese Suide 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 3,19. Mountains 30 miles 
W. of K’uei-hua-ch’éng, 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 
1 A similar epidemic has taken place this winter (1913-14), 
so that the pigs have decreased again.—A. de C.S. 
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