THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
separate expedition, of which Pekin is the starting point. The Khinghan is 
a long, narrow range extending all the way from the north bend of the 
Hoang Ho right away into Manchuria. It is nowhere of any great height, 
but much of it is very wild country. It roughly forms the eastern wall 
of the great plateau of Upper Asia. Any hunter who finds himself in Pekin 
with a month or two to spare, could make an interesting excursion into 
these mountains well worth the trouble, although his bag can only consist 
of wild sheep. They are of an interesting variety peculiar to this range. 
The Khinghan wild sheep have been named mongolica > a race allied to 
the hodgsoni ammon of Tibet, its chief characteristics being great thick- 
ness of horn like the true ammon, but with a heavy ruff like the poli; it is 
distinguished from the Tibetan sheep by less of “ nip in ” and more of a 
rounded front surface. 
In 1908 Major J . H. Abbot Anderson procured these sheep in the 
southern portion of their range, on the mountains between Kalgan and 
the north bend of the Hoang Ho. He found them inhabiting a stony plateau 
at between 4,000 to 5 ,000 feet, in small numbers ; apparently they were very 
much on the decrease owing to progressive Chinese colonization. He and 
his companion shot heads of 35 inches and 41 inches and picked up the 
record head of 50 £ inches. 
There is a wild sheep, which the Russians have named Ovis koslovi , 
existing on other ranges on the southern borders of the Gobi; this will 
probably prove to be identical with Ovis ammon mongolica. 
II. EASTERN SIBERIA 
The rest of Upper Asia, outside Mongolia, is composed of the forested 
plains, the swamps, tundras and occasional groups of rugged mountains 
which rise above the jungles — a vast region of great uniformity stretching 
from the frontiers of China to the Arctic Ocean. In its southern portion 
there is much of beauty and interest; there is a fauna of some variety, 
which includes the moose, wapiti, roe deer, reindeer, musk deer, 
bears, and even ibex. Further north the game becomes scarcer, until 
the vast uninhabited tundras are reached. But even as far north as the 
Arctic Circle, and well inside it, there are mountain ranges holding wild 
sheep. 
The southern borderlands of Siberia, which march on the Chinese 
Empire, are for the most part wooded hill country, well worth a hunting 
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