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in the Dibang Valley is from the Andra Valley, north-west of the village of 

 Mipi, across the hills to the Yongyap Valley which they cross and move to a 

 hot spring somewhere in the valleys to the north-east. The natives say that 

 at the end of May, the Yongyap Valley swarms with them, but they do not 

 stay there long, and we ourselves passed through this valley before the arrival 

 of these large herds. The Akas say they are plentiful in their country where 

 they are called '• Shugupan." The people of Po Me and Kongbo call them 

 " Kyimyak " or " Tsimyak." One which I shot (Fig. B) was eating the bark 

 of trees as he went along, leaving a regular blazed trail in places which was 

 very easy to follow. In uninhabited country where they are seldom hunted 

 they are very fearless of man until they get his wind, and natives say that 

 they can sometimes walk boldly up to within a few yards of them. 



Kyang, Equica hemionus-\ were seen on the Pu La (4th September) and the 

 Nyala La (26th October). We saw no bears, but there are many on Po Me 

 and the people are fond of wearing black bearskin coats. We saw stones 

 turned over by bears on the glaciers which flow north from the great snow 

 peak of Namcha Barwa, and they are found in valleys flowing into the 

 Tsangpo at least as far upstream as Shu where the altitude of the river bed 

 is about 10,000 feet. Here 1 saw in trees some branches bent together to 

 form a kind of platform about three feet square on which they said the 

 bears sat. These places were used every night and fresh droppings were on 

 them and on the ground. 



1 saw monkeysf in the Yongyap Valley at about 9,500 feet. They are 

 also found in the Lower Tsangpo Valley, at least as far up as Dowoka where 

 the river bed is 9,500 feet and the monkeys are said to be in the forests 

 high up on the hills. The only ones I saw in the Tsangpo Valley were near 

 Gyala, where 1 saw a large flock among dry rocks and scrub jungle on the 

 steep hillside. I saw one of these in captivity which appeared to have rather 

 longer hair than the ordinary Bengal monkey, Simla rhesus, especially round 

 the face. I also saw a flock in the Tsari Valley. 



We saw wolves and foxes in many places ; the former were occasionally 

 in small packs, eleven being the largest number seen together. Near the 

 Hor La (31st Oct.) the shepherds burn a circle of sheep's dung fires round 

 their camps to scare these animals away. 



We saw Marmots, Marmot sp .-' f on several high passes. They had 

 not hibernated by the beginning of October, but must have done so soon 

 after. 



Tigerst ^re found as far up the Dibang Valley as two marches beyond 

 Mipi where I saw fresh tracks and the bones of one which had been killed a 

 year previously. 



Pig, Sus sp ?-\ are very common in the Upper Dibang Valley where they 

 do considerable damage, and we sometimes saw hillsides ploughed up by 

 them. The Mishmis call them Amwon. 



Several snakes were seen in the Mishmi Hills and also in Pemako. They 

 are also said to be very plentiful in north-eastern Bhvitan. Lizards were 

 basking on the rocks and walls along the whole of our road up the Tsang 

 Po Valley ; they were also numerous in the Yigrong Valley in Po Me. 



BIRDS. 



The following birds collected were identified by Mr. Stuart Baker : — 



Himalayan Jay, Garndus bispecularis. — Chulikatta Mishmi name Jula. 

 Etalin Dibang Valley, 8,000 feet. 7-2-13. 



Yellow-billed Blue Magpie, Urocissa fiavirostris. — Chema Chembo Rong 

 Valley, Po Me, 7,000 feet. 7-7-18. 



The Himalayan Nutcracker, Nucifraya hemispUa. — Lower Yigrong Valley, 

 7,500 feet. 5-7-13. 



