Lanning, George (1911) Wild Life in China: or, Chats on Chinese Birds and Beasts, The National Review Office, p. 253
Passing through southern Kansu we stopped for some days south of Pikow, at the edge of the limestone wall which bars the way into what is geographically Tibet. This magnificent country of huge bald cliffs alternating with densely forested slopes harbours a good deal of genuine big game–musk-deer, mountain-sheep, and Budorcas , all of which I found the spoor of, besides several semi-fabulous monsters which became known to us chiefly through local tradition. The most curious of these possibly fictitious beasts, which were spoken of quite seriously by the natives, was a medium-sized animal with long red hair, which lived on monkeys! (Incidentally this goes to show that there are monkeys as far north as this in western China, thought they probably do not extend north of the main watershed between the Yangtze and the Yellow River.) But though the zoologist may be inclined to scoff (I am inclined to think however that no man with any real scientific knowledge and training would scoff) at nat...