Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . ltai .Mountains near the .^Mongolian hy Hollister. devoted hi> time chiefly to the collecting of large game. The NationalMuseum was represented by Mr. N. Hollister, assistant curator ofluammals, who had as his assistant in the work of collecting thesmaller vertebrates, Conrad Kain, of \ ienna, Austria. The party left America in May. 1912, and retin^ned in Sep-tember of the same year. It entered Asia by way of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. The railway was left at Novonikolsevsk. on theObi River, and
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . ltai .Mountains near the .^Mongolian hy Hollister. devoted hi> time chiefly to the collecting of large game. The NationalMuseum was represented by Mr. N. Hollister, assistant curator ofluammals, who had as his assistant in the work of collecting thesmaller vertebrates, Conrad Kain, of \ ienna, Austria. The party left America in May. 1912, and retin^ned in Sep-tember of the same year. It entered Asia by way of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. The railway was left at Novonikolsevsk. on theObi River, and the long journey southward to the last Russian postnear the Mongolian border was made by river boat and tarantassin 1/ days. At this outpost, Kosh-Agatch, Kalmuk and Tartarguides and packers were secured, and the frontier range to thesouthward was then explored for a month. The collecting was done 8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 6o chiefly on the Siberian side of the range, but expeditions were madeto the iMongohan slopes for great game, and down to the Suok. Fig. 8.—Kirghiz marmot-hunter; the white tail in his right hand is wavedto hold the marmots attention until the gun is in position for the by Hollister.
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