52 
Forest and Stri 
wild goats or gorals, not to mention 
wolves, foxes, an occasional leopard, and 
numerous roedeer, pheasants, hares and 
partridges. 
In Shensi still further west there are 
numerous wild areas abounding in cer¬ 
tain kinds of game, notably roedeer, wild 
pigs, leopards, wolves, hares, pheasants 
and partridges. The same may be said 
of the westernmost province of all, 
Kansu. Here a great range of moun¬ 
tains running from north to south in the 
center of the province contains game 
areas in which are wapiti and eared- 
pheasants (Crossoptilon) , and which 
have never yet been explored. 
The mighty range known as the Tsing 
Ling, which divides North from Central 
China, or we may say the Yang-tzu from 
the Yellow River basin, extending as it 
does from west to east through Southern 
Kansu, and Southern Shensi into West¬ 
ern Honan and Northwestern Hupei, is 
the home of the takin ( Budorcas ), that 
strangest of beasts, and the serow 
(Nemorhoedus ), a large goat-like animal. 
A note should here be added to the 
effect that the greater part of North 
China is under cultivation, and the 
traveler may journey for days without 
seeing anything larger than a hare or 
partridge. It is only where special res¬ 
ervation has taken place, as in the case 
of the Imperial Hunting Grounds, or 
where the mountains rise to a height of 
7000 feet or more, as in the province of 
Shansi and in the 
1. Woolly tiger. ( Felis tigris longi- 
pilis, Fitz.) 
2. Chinese leopard. ( Felis pardus 
fontanieri, M-Edw.) 
3. Moupin black bear. ( Selenarctos 
mupinensis, Heude.) 
■in 
Every year young men go forth to 
little known corners of the world to 
hunt. And so it will always be so 
long as there are any wild places in¬ 
habited by animals and birds of the 
chase; for a hundred generations 
are not enough to overcome the 
hunting instincts by which primitive 
man slowly climbed out of savagery 
to his place of supremacy in Nature. 
16. Bharal, or Blue sheep. (Pseu 
nahura, Blanford.) 
17. Mongolian antelope, or gaz 
( Gazclla gutturosa, Pallas.) 
18. Przewalski’s antelope, or gaz 
( Gazclla przewalskii, Bitch.) 
19. Tibetan gazelle. (Gazella p : 
candata, Hodgson.) 
20. Grey goral, or wild goat. ({ 
tragus driereus, M.-Edw.) 
21. Grizzled goral. (Urotragus 
eus, M.-Edw.) 
22. Black goral. (Urotragus ni 
Heude.) 
23. Long-tailed goral. (Urotrc 
caudatus, M.-Edw.) 
24. West China serow. ( Ncmorha, 
milne-edwardsi, David.) 
25. Tsing Ling serow. (Neniorha 
vidianus, Heude.) 
26. Golden takin. (Budorcas bedfc 
Thos.) 
4. White-pawed bear. ( Ursus clarki, 
Sowerby.) 
5. Tibetan brown bear. ( Ursus lago- 
myarius, Przewalski.) 
6. Wolf. ( Lupus tschiliensis, Matsch.) 
7. Siberian wild-dog. ( Cyon alpinus, 
Pallas.) 
8. Wild-pig. (Sus moupinensis, M.- 
Edw.) 
9. Kansu wapiti, or elk. ( Cervus 
canadensis kansuensis, Poc.) 
10. Peking spotted deer, or sika. 
(Cervus mandarinus, M.-Edw.) 
Smaller animals, which scarcely a 
under the heading of big game, 
which the hunter is always willing 
add to his bag, are the lynx, wild-c 
the fox, the raccoon dog, the bad 
the otter, and the large, yellow-thro; 
marten; while a bird that almost xz 
as big game, since in hunting it the 
and deer-stalking tactics are gener 
used, is the eastern representative of 
great bustard ( Otis dybozvskii), a i 
grown male of which may weigh z 
thing up to 30 lbs. 
Tsing Ling, or, as 
in North Shensi 
and Kansu, where 
the country has 
been depopulated 
by famine, rebel¬ 
lion and mas¬ 
sacres, and al¬ 
lowed to relapse 
into wilderness, 
that big game is to 
be found; and it is 
this probably 
more than any¬ 
thing else that is 
responsible for the 
general 
ignorance 
of China’s big 
N the course of 
explorations ex¬ 
ending over a 
period of fourteen 
ears, and mainly 
m behalf of the 
Jnited States Na- 
ional Museum, the 
vriter has actually 
isited and hunted 
nearly all the 
In the follow 
pages each of 
above mentio 
big game anir 
is briefly descri' 
its scientific n; 
being given, 
something of 
distribution 
habits. 
Collection of heads and skins of Chinese big game animals: big horn sheep, roedeer, 
Mongolian gazelle, wild pig, wolf and fox 
reas where big game is to be found in 
lorth China. Specimens of many kinds 
ave been secured and their species de- 
^rmined; wEile considerable attention 
as been paid to the habits and distribu- 
;on of each of the many forms so far 
nown to occur in the country. The 
omplete list, including carnivorous 
nimals, contains some twenty-six spe- 
ies and sub-species, namely: 
11 . 
12 
Shansi spotted deer, or sika. ( Cer¬ 
vus grassianus, Heude.) 
Shansi roedeer. ( Capreolus bcd- 
fordi, Thos.) 
13. Kansu, or black-eared roeder. 
(Capreolus melanotus, Mill.) 
14. Musk-deer.* ( Moschus sibiricus, 
Pall., and M. sif aniens, Biich.) 
15. Wild sheep. ( Ovis comosa, Holl.) 
r "F HE woo 
-*■ tiger (F c 
tigris longip 
Fitz.), as 
North Chi 
Manchurian, 
Siberian repre 
tative of t 
group of fel 
may be called 
probably the 1; 
est and finest 
the whole 
tribe, and 
beautiful, 1 o i 
soft coat one 
the most cow 
trophies of t 
chase. It has 1 
placed on rec 
that a tiger 
longing to this subspecies, which 
killed near Vladivostok in Manchi 
measured 10 ft. 6 in. in length witl 
the tail. This means a total lengtl 
between 13 ft. 6 in. and 14 ft., and 
ates a world record, since the lar; 
Bengal tiger shot up to the pre: 
measured 12 ft., including the tail, 
pelt of the woolly tiger, as the name ; 
gests, is long and soft, while in a 
