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Subsequently it has been repeatedly met 

 with on several of the passes leading from 

 the valley of the Indus to the head of the 

 Pangong lake, and about the lake itself; 

 it has been shot near the Buddhist 

 monastery at Hanle, and near the foot of 

 the Lanak Pass ; and it has been obtained 

 at the extreme north of both Kumaun 

 and Garhwal." 



In the British Museum there are skins 

 of this Partridge obtained in Ladak; at 

 Nobra, north of Ladak ; and at Darjiling. 



Mr. Hume thus refers to the one 

 occasion on which he met with these 

 Partridges : " The birds were in pairs, 

 apparently far from wild, but absolutely 

 invisible when amongst the bare stones 

 and rocks, and I should certainly have 

 passed them unnoticed but for their 

 vociferous calls, which seemed to me so 

 like those of our English bird that I took 

 some trouble in searching the neighbour- 

 hood with the dogs. I put up several 

 pairs, and shot three or four. I noticed 

 that when flushed they only flew a short 

 distance, and that their whirring rise and 

 flight were precisely that of the European 

 bird, and very different to that of the 

 Chukor. The entire aspect of the hill- 

 side where these birds were found was 



