. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 430 SOME TIBETAN ANIMALS. China, such as Shansi and Kansu, where they have of late years been collected by Mr. F. W. Styan, an English tea planter. Not that our information with regard to the mammals of eastern Tibet depends by an}^ means solely on the collections made in Kansu and Shansi. On the contrary, the great French missionary ex2:)lorer. Abbe David, succeeded many years ago in penetrating into the heart of the Moupin district of eas
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 430 SOME TIBETAN ANIMALS. China, such as Shansi and Kansu, where they have of late years been collected by Mr. F. W. Styan, an English tea planter. Not that our information with regard to the mammals of eastern Tibet depends by an}^ means solely on the collections made in Kansu and Shansi. On the contrary, the great French missionary ex2:)lorer. Abbe David, succeeded many years ago in penetrating into the heart of the Moupin district of eastern Tibet, whence he brought back a number of mam- mals belonging to types previously unknown to science. Practically all that has resulted from subsequent exploration and collection is to prove the extension of the range of these peculiar types into western China, and to add to them a few species differing only in compara- tiveh^ trivial features. The absence of any distinctly new types in this west Chinese fauna seems to point to the improbability of any striking novelty among the larger types of animal life remaining to be discovered in Tibet. Of the strange animals first brought from eastern Tibet by Abbe DaA'id, and subsequently obtained by Mr, Styan in western China, by far the most remarkable is the crea- ture now known to naturalists as the great panda {^Fluropus niela- noleucns), although at one time de- nominated the particolored bear c^^'*r«''l;,,.,A^*.-^^---~^~^^s^*^'^ i^b- !)• Ill appearance this ani- panda. ^'^1 ^^^ indeed, strangely bear-like, although far inferior in bodily size to most membt'rs of the Ci'sidd- the rudimentarj^ tail, plantigrade feet, short ears, and broad head being all ursine features. Moreover, it is not a little remarkable that a species of true bear (Ursus jyruin- osus) inhabiting 'J'ibet not infrexpiently presents a type of coloration approximating to that of the great panda, in Avhich the legs and underparts, together with
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