A world's record ibex, with horns measuring 59 1/2 inches in total Length, has been bagged by Mi Hermit Roosvelt, ce-leader with his brother, Colonel Theodore, of the James Simpson-Roosevelt expedition to Central Asia for the field museum.
A letter from Colonel Roosevelt, Writing on September 26 from Kashgar, East Turkestan, gives a description of the rare animals obtained in the Tien Shan mountain hunt in which the brothers engaged before bagging the Marco Polo sheep, the initial objective of the expedition. They are now en route to Kashmir, Central India, and Nepal, in quest of the "Armor plate" Indian rhinoceros.
Eleven spedments of the ibex were obtained. Other big game included three Tien-Shan sheep, four Siberian Roeder, several blue sheep, two Asiatic brown bear, two goitred grizelles, and other animals, as well a 1,000 or more skins of birds and small animals, Mr. George K. Cherrie, naturalist and explorer, and Mr. Suydam Cutting, photographer, who left the Roosvelts in July, with the heavier part of the expedition, now] coming out through Russi Caspian soa route—Reuter's Ameri. can Service.
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