success. But its owed its continued existence largely to the fact that the Chinese of the neighboring villages are not hunters and do not have guns. None they cope like the Mongols who all have rifles, the rapidi would long since have disappeared with the forests, their natural cover. We began to take a new interest in the bush scrub on the north side of the ravines (the S. side was always bare) and no sooner one came there, rabbit running about near the summit their white patches bobbing showing conspicuously as they bobbled about nearing the thin cover. But we were after larger game & the hunters would not let us start. A few moments later we separated. Harry continued up the ravine while my hunter & I stumbled into a patch of scrub on its hill side. We had not gone fifty yards when there was a rabbit crash, a rush of feet, and an enormous 'rapidi' dashed away thru the bushes. For an instant he stopped just on the crest of the ridge but directly behind a thick screen of leaves. I caught a glimpse of a tremendous pair