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Table 4 Game and game birds

From: Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900

Wild yak, Bos grunniens mutus (Przewalski, 1883)

 

Tibetan antilope, Pantholops hodgsonii (Abel, 1826)

 

Goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa (Güldenstaedt, 1780)

 

Maral deer, Cervus elaphus yarkandensis Blanford, 1892

 

Bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus ferus Przewalski, 1878

 

Asian wild ass, Equus hemionus Pallas, 1775

 

Wild horse, Equus ferus przewalskii Poliakov, 1881

 

Caspian tiger, Panthera tigris virgata (Illiger, 1815)

 

Red fox, Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758)

 

Otter, Lultra lutra (Linnaeus, 1758)

 

Grey-leg, Anser anser (Linnaeus, 1758)

 

Bar-headed geese, Anser indicus (Latham, 1790)

 

Common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna (Linnaeus, 1758)

 

Ruddy shelduck, Tadorna ferruginea (Pallas, 1764)

 

Pintails, Anas acuta Linnaeus, 1758

 

Gadwall, Mareca strepera (Linnaeus, 1758)

 

Whooper swans, Cygnus cygnus (Linnaeus, 1758)

 

Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758)

 

Chukar, Alectoris chukar (J.E.Gray, 1830)

 

Common pheasant, Phasanius colchius Linnaeus, 1758

 

Hill pigeon, Columba rupestris Pallas, 1811

 
  1. Sources: Hedin 1903 [52]; Leche 1904 [76]; Malov 1956 [31]; Ståhlberg & Svanberg 2017 [66]