THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
a buck or a doe is “barking” with any certainty, though in this he 
differs from Mr Church, who states that the buck’s call is so much 
more guttural that it might be made by a different animal altogether. 
The Manchurian roe (C. bedfordi) is very closely related to our European 
roe, though the coat may be slightly redder, both in winter and summer. 
The summer coat particularly is very vivid in colouring. Manchurian roe, 
which I saw in the then recently established zoological gardens in 
Peking in 1907, struck me as being extraordinarily red. The horns are 
identical with, though rather larger than those of European roe. 
The Kansu roe is now distinguished as C. melanotis. I have dealt very 
fully with this animal in the chapter on Chinese game. 
Any rifle of about *275 bore is a good weapon. Roe are seldom hunted 
systematically by sportsmen in Asia, who prefer reserving their energies 
for the wapiti. 
For permission to use the photograph of his fine wapiti head I am in- 
debted to Major Price Wood; for that of the shou to Sir Edmund Loder; 
and to Mr Charles Howard Bury, Colonel C. S. Wood, the Editor of 
“ Country Life,” and Rowland Ward, Ltd, for the other photographs 
and drawings. 
In the compilation of the foregoing chapters I have consulted the 
following : 
Deer of all Lands and Big Game of Europe , West and North Asia and America , by 
R. Lydekker; also his notes on Dr Paul Matschie’s researches, published 
originally in Sitzungsberichte der Gesselschaft Naturforschen der Freutide, Berlin. 
Some Notes on the Asiatic Wapiti, P.Z.S., 1913. 
Zoology and Botany of the Altai Mountains (Journal of Linnean Society, 1899), by 
H. J. Elwes. 
Notes on Deer (Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society), by Captain F. M. 
Bailey. 
On a Rare Stag from Nepal, P.Z.S., 1912, by R. I. Pocock. 
Etude sur les Ruminants de VAsie Centrale, by the late Eugfcne de Pousargues. Vol. xi, 
Memoires Soc. Zool. de France, 1898. 
Mammals of Turkestan (Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 4, v, xviii), 
by Dr N. Severtzoff. 
Unknown Mongolia, Douglas Carruthers and J. H. Miller. 
Short Stalks, E. N. Buxton. 
Chinese Turkestan, P. W. Church. 
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