New Britain herald., 1925-04-03
EXPEDITION WILL
 SEEK SPECIMENS
Rare Beasts Of Asia ObjStiVeS
 Of Roosevelt Hunters

London, April 8. - Slow moving sought for the Field museum by Colonel Theodore and Kermit Roose- welt and George K. cherrie during the James Simpson Roosevelt expe- dition to Central Asia this year are among the strangest and most beau tiful in the world, according to zoo- logists at the museum here.
 The expedition, financed by James Simpson. president of Marshall, Field & Co.,. will sail from New York in April. It probably will enter In- dia via Bombay, and travel north ward by rail to the foot of the Him aiayan outer range and go by auto mobile to Serinagur. From then on into the Pamir region plateaus 1t will use pack horses. yaks, camels and coolies.
 In addition to seeking specimens of the rare Uvis Poli, or Marco Polo sheep, the three white men will also hunt the Markhor, the finest of goats; the Yarkand stag. the Himal- ayah ibex, the goitered gazelle, the long-haired tiger, the ounce or snow leopard. The Tibetan Argali, wild sheep; the Tibetan antelope, the Kashmir stag, the big Asiatic brown bear, and other mammals as we'll as birds of the region, according to D. c. Davies, director of the museum.
 "Orvis Poll is probably the most interesting of these animals, owing to the romance attached with 1t in connection with Marco Polo's trav- els" said W. H. Osgood, curator of zoology at the museum. When that explorer returned to Europe after his trip into Cathay in the thirteenth century, his description of the huge animal caused many learn ed men to brand him as & fakir.> The sheep is bigger than the American Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, and his huge spiral horns. Although the spread of the horns is usually about 55 inches, each horn sometimes measures from 60 to 75 inches from tip to base, the spirals lessening the spread.
 Perhaps the most beautiful of the animals sought is the ounce or snow leopard. The snow leopard is tso-called because it lives in the snow above the timber line, or close to the edge of the timber. It is white with black spots, and possesses a beauti- full, long heavy tail. It Is about the size of an American mountain lion or leopard.
 '"The kashmir stag is a big deer related somewhat to the European red deer and American elk. The Thian Shan stag, another possible trophy, Is similar animal and ont of the most magnificent of the deel tribe. Attempts also will be made tt
 obtain specimens of the Tibetan Ar lgali, a wild sheep weighing ordinar lily about 200 pounds. found 1T northern India and Tibet, ma jestit animal, remarkable for its horns which are heavy with the curv' down and forward. Sometimes thes' horns are 20 inches in circumference at the base. ts.g
 'The big Asiatic brown bear, o the type of the American kodial bear, but not quite so large, is alst an inhabitant of the .Himalayan pla teaus and mountains. It resemble, the European brown bear and i. bigger than the American grizzly.
 "Himalayan goats are expected tc furnish some of the most attractive trophies. These include the Himala- van ibex and Markhor, the latter possessing horns that look like cork screws. More like the American do. mestic ram is the Himalayan Tahr another member of the goat groups of the region"