NATURAL HISTORY AND SPORT IN THE HIMALAYAS. 395 
that at least one-third of this party were suffering from goitre. 
I saw several four-horned sheep tethered on the hill-side, and 
engaged to purchase one on my way back; which I did, and it 
lived with me for a year at Kussowlie, when it became mutton, 
and I have its horns to this day. We passed a miserable night, 
from the ravages of fleas, or something worse, and resolved to 
cut very short our sojourn at Theog Bungalow. 
Muttecana, Oct. 8th. — Started at peep of day for this place ; 
distance eleven miles; elevation 7700 feet. A fair road most of 
the way, but rather narrow, with precipitous slopes on either side ; 
and of course not railed in, and with some of the curves and 
windings fit to give a nervous rider the jumps. We found break- 
fast being got ready in a lovely spot half-way, in a deep wooded 
ravine below the road, with a clear mountain-torrent dashing 
through it; the banks clothed with a variety of trees, many of 
them festooned with beautiful ferns, and clothed with brilliant 
mosses and hoary lichens. We resolved to spend most of the 
day here, and sent the servants on to the bungalow with instruc- 
tions to have dinner ready by six o’clock. Beating up the Khud 
I flushed some Wood Partridges, Arboricola torqueola, a pretty 
species whose acquaintance I had made in a former expedition. 
I shot a brace; and T., who had taken the other side of the 
Khud, got a brace and a half, killing one of his birds in a tree. 
I have several times since got the Hill Partridge in the woods 
near the brewery, and in the botanical gardens at Mussoorie. 
We found them very good eating, but not so good, perhaps, as 
Chucores. Two, if not three, closely-allied species are found in 
the Eastern Himalayas. 
In course of the day I got three specimens of Coccothraustes 
teterioides, a pair of Megalaima virens, Pomatorhinus leucogaster, a 
beautiful Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Gecinus flavinucha, which is 
a scarce bird; Henicurus maculatus, Myiophorus Temminckii, both 
species of Water Redstart, Ruticilla fuliginosa and R. leucocephala ; 
and saw a third, R. ceruleocephala, but did not want this species, 
which is common at Kussowlie. The other Mountain Redstart, 
Ri. frontalis, oddly enough, we did not see, except at Koteghur; 
but the best acquisition of to-day was an example of the rare 
_ Tarsiger chryseus, a beautiful and remarkable bird of skulking 
Wren-like habits, generally found solitary or in pairs. I did not 
get another during our expedition, and Capt. 'T. knew it not; but 
