The plants and animals there are unique - the snow leopard, Tibetan antelope, Tibetan gazelle, Bengal tiger, wild yak, blue sheep, brown bear, and black-necked crane, to name a few.
[Footnote: There is a black-necked swan (Cygnus nigricollis), from— Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.
Among these may be observed the great musk duck, misnamed "Muscovy," and the black-necked swan; both indigenous to the— Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
_Anativae_, among them the beautiful black-necked swan.— The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure
In Canada, the largest and best known of the wild geese is the black-necked Canadian goose.— The Naturalist on the Thames

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