Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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"the very limited space of a few ravines which afford cover and instead of being spread out over a large area as in the forest. Moreover, they are easy to see because of the low bushes, which now are all leafless. But at this there are hundreds of rock rabbits there and really very few warpti's. And these are not easy to get, as we found later, even tho' our initial experience had led us to believe otherwise. The mesaless ridges are so high with rock extremely steep sides that it is killing work thrust down the ravines properly. It means shooting up & down all day over the roughest country. If one is fort- utunate, as we were on the first day, in driving the particular ravine which contains a warpti, the chances are that one will get a specimen. But the probabilities are very much stringy that after an all day's search of the hardest kind one will have missed the warpti altogether. After two more days of killing driving, when rockhuts were run- ning about us like rabbits, we decided to do some shooting regardles of frightening warpti. We wanted scores of rockhuts and certainly