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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: [1918 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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510 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL
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The camp of tliu uxpodition on the Snow Mountain at an altitude of twelve thousand feet. The tents were pitched just at the edge of the dense spruce forest, in a beautiful open meadow, not far from a torrent of snow water which poured down from the peaks above. The first goral was killed just at the edge of timber line, on the cliff shown at the left of the picture and the Mekong did not act as effective iKirriers to migration. Wlierever there are main caravan roads through the province, the entire country for miles around has been de- forested, and it is necessary to go far into the interior, away from traveled routes, l)efore good collecting regions can be found. Even then the hunting localities are widely separated, and although one camp may prove an espe- cially good one and a rich collection may be made in a few days, at other times it is necessary to travel for a fort- night before finding a place where one can catch even a mouse. It is during such days of discouragement that one realizes a field expedition is not all pleasure, and the specter of "making good to the ^Museum looms large be- fore one. But at the end all the hours of unhappiness are forgotten, and only memories of delightful days in the wil- derness remain. The Asiatic Zoological Expedition was fortunat(> in obtaining specimens of almost all the large game known in the province, with the exception of shce]) and wapiti. We were never in the I'cizioii where the former occur, and when liimting the latter the weather became so cold, and snowstorms were of such frequent occurrence, that our Lolo natives refused to work, and without llu'in we could do nothing. In all parts of China wapiti are rare, because their growing horns have such medicinal value that the animals are hunted ener- getically during the summer, and in some localities have been absolutely ex- terminated. A pair of antlers in the velvet is worth about one hundred and fifty dollars Mexican. Probably the most interesting of all the mammals in Yunnan are the gorals and serows, the so-called "goat ante- lopes," which are found only in Asia, and form an intermediate stage between the true goats and the antelopes. An- other interesting member of this group is the takin. which, however, does not

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