Sport and science on the Sino-Mongolian frontier . Young Antelope. Wild Sheep. Opposite p. i8o.] SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER The biological work of the year ending inAugust, 1912, as might be expected, was verymuch hampered by the unsettled state of thecountry. From October 27, 1911, to May 10, 1912,more than half the year, not a single specimen wasadded to my collection, except three antelopeskulls, which I purchased in the Tientsin gamemarket. Subsequently we tried to make up forlost time, making collections during the summerin North Shansi and on the Mongolian from October, 1
Sport and science on the Sino-Mongolian frontier . Young Antelope. Wild Sheep. Opposite p. i8o.] SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER The biological work of the year ending inAugust, 1912, as might be expected, was verymuch hampered by the unsettled state of thecountry. From October 27, 1911, to May 10, 1912,more than half the year, not a single specimen wasadded to my collection, except three antelopeskulls, which I purchased in the Tientsin gamemarket. Subsequently we tried to make up forlost time, making collections during the summerin North Shansi and on the Mongolian from October, 1909, to August, 1912,about two hundred and seventy specimens ofmammals were collected, including forty-five speciesand subspecies. Very little was done in the w^ay of collectingbirds or cold-blooded vertebrates, while inverte-brates were left entirely alone. It was unfor-tunate that I could not do more in these branchesof zoology, but reptiles and amphibeans werealmost non-existent in most of the localitiesvisited. It was only in Mongolia that in
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