SYRBHAPTES TIBETANUS 823 



no special hour for drinking, and are not at all shy, so it is possible 

 to walk up within gunshot distance when they are feeding on the 

 bare plains. On being fired at a flock will only fly a hundred yards 

 or so and will allow another shot to be taken in the same manner. 

 In this way a flock could easily be exterminated, as they do not seem 

 to get any wilder. I have seen them at Kambajong and at various 

 places in the Brahmapootra Valley, west of Shigatse. I made every 

 effort to get the eggs of this bird but without success." 



He also informs me that they are seldom found actually in snow, 

 and that the plate given here cannot be taken as typical of the 

 country they inhabit though in the Chambi Valley they are often 

 found in snow on the higher reaches. 



