ABSTRACT
EARLY in January my good friend the SubPrefect informed me he had received a communication from Sarajevo instructing him to procure a bartgams, or buck chamois in its winter coat, for the museum there. The word literally means " a bearded chamois," and the bart, or beard, is the long hair on the withers. It is a wisp of this which is used to make those ornaments for shooting-hats, which most Englishmen have seen when travelling in Germany or Switzerland. In accordance with these instructions, he invited Miller and myself to participate in the shoot, which was fixed for the 18th.
