UPPER ASIA 
easy to stalk; in fact, Littledale complained that they were no sport at all. 
Their heads run to 39 \ inches, which is the record obtained by Prince 
Demidoff. An average head seems to be about 35 inches. 
Without troubling to hunt especially for bears, many will fall to the 
rifle of any traveller in Kamchatka; they are very numerous and attain a 
large size. Caribou, apparently, only come south into the peninsula during 
winter, and are not there during summer. An expedition into the far north 
might prove fruitful in interesting specimens of these beasts and of wild 
sheep, which are known to range along the Arctic coast from the Gulf of 
Anadir to Kolymsk and the Yerkhoyansk Mountains on the right bank 
of the Lena; they are even reported from as far west as the Taimyr 
Peninsula. It will be noticed that in this north-eastern corner of Asia the 
members of the reindeer and sheep families approximate to the American 
types of these groups. 
DOUGLAS CARRUTHERS. 
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