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DR. CAMPBELL, Superintendent of Darjeeling, has recently published a series of valuable papers on Eastern Thibet in The Phæenix, a monthly magazine for China, Japan, and Eastern Asia, ably edited by the Rev. James Summers, Professor of the Chinese Language in King's College. As a journal of this kind must naturally have only a limited circulation, and is not likely to be in the hands of many of our readers, we have no hesitation in abstracting from Dr. Campbell's contributions the following notes on the Zoology and Mineralogy of a country that at the present time is of special interest, both in a geographical and a commercial. point of view. The following is a list of the animals of Eastern Thibet, the native name being attached to each:—Goa, an antelope; Gnow, the Ovis ammon; Rigong, the hare; Kiang, the wild ass; Lawa, the musk-deer; Shaoo, a large deer, Cervus affinis; Cheu, Antelope?odgsoni; Dong, the wild yak of Thibet; Pegoo, the yak; A small cow, whose native name is not given; Sauh cross between cow and yak; Ba Sauh, produce of female yak by bull; Look, sheep; Peu Ra, Thibet goat; Phák, the pig; Cha, the common fowl; Damjhar, the duck; Damjhar Cheemoo, the goose (besides the duck and goose there are numerous wild fowls, swimmers and waders, which migrate from India in March, and return in October); Chungoo, a reddish wild dog; Koong, a mottled civet; SiK the leopard; Tagh, the tiger; Somb, the bear (a red and a black species); Nehornehu, a large sheep, goat, or antelope of various colours, four feet high, with enormous horns four feet long, sloping backwards, and a tail fifteen inches in length.
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The Natural History of Eastern Thibet . Nature 5, 406–407 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005406a0
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