Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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LITTLE-KXO)YX MAMMALS FROM CHINA 511 eonie into this province, and proba))ly is not found south of the Yangtze Eiver. In America, a close relative of these animals is the so-called Eockv Mountain goat. Although gorals and serows are com- mon in some regions, nevertheless they are rare in museum collections, and but very little is known of their habits and systematic rela- tionships. The Asiatic Zoolog- ical Expedition secured thirty- two gorals of at least two spe- cies, and seven serows of three species; with- out doubt no other institu- tion in the world possesses such a repre- sentative series as that now in the American Museum. One of our first collecting camps was on the slopes of the Snow
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Mountain, spur of a the southern Him- alayas, at an altitude of gun, having a barrel more than six feet long and a short stock like a golf stick. The butt was placed against the cheek, and the gun fired by holding a piece of burning rope to a powder fuse which ))rojected from the side of the barrel. The three other hunters carried cross- bows and poisoned arrows. They were remarkably good shots, and at a dis- tance of two hundred feet could place an arrow in a six- inch circle four times out of live. We found later that cross- bows were in common use throughout the more remote parts of Yun- nan, and were only another evidence that we had sud- denly dropped back into the Middle Ages, and with our h i g h - p 0 w e r rifles and twen- tieth century equipment were anachronisms. A short time after our tents were up, Mr. Mrs. Andrews in front of our camp at the "White Water." The expedition rode two thousand miles on liorsebaek through Yunnan. The tall tent at the left was a dark room for loading and developing photo- graphic plates twelve thousand feet, in early October Heller set a long string of traps just of 1916. Our tents were pitched in a below snow line, and the next morning beautiful open meadow, overshadowed they were full of small mammals. It by the white-crowned peaks, not far was a gray day, with dense clouds from a torrent of clear water which weaving in and out among the peaks, poured down from the snow fields but I went out with the hunters to try above, through the dense spruce forest. We had hired four Moso hunters— ragged, picturesque fellows, dressed entireh' in skins—and a pack of mon for gorals. We were not more than twenty minutes from camp when the dogs began to yelp, and almost imme- diatelv we heard them coming around grel curs led by a splendid red hound the summit of the peak in our direc- as large as a wolf. One of our hunters tion. Suddenly the hounds appeared was armed Avith a most extraordinarv on the side of the cliff, and just m

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