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and indeed, frequently in deep sno\N'. Once when I was snow- 

 ed np for several days, these birds came round my tent, and I 

 actually shot them from vaj tent door. They go about in 

 jflocks of from ten to twenty, and they fly very unwillingly, 

 and when forced to take wing, settle again almost immediately, 

 and take to their legs, escaping by running. 



" I lived upon these Blood Pheasants for some time, and 

 foinid the flesh good, but the legs were \erj tough ; I have 

 notes somewhere on the contents of their crops, which I will 

 send you if I can find them. 



" Their call is the same as that of the other Blood Pheasants, 

 geojfroyi is the one I know best, a kind of whistle, hard to 

 describe. 



" I found them in the upper Dihong Valley and also in Po 

 Me, at least, I think the bird in the latter place is the same, 

 though I did not actually kill any specimens there. 



" I have never found them in the open, but always in fairly 

 heavy forest." 

 In the Society's Journal, Captain Bailey adds to these notes 

 certain additional information as follows : — 



"Very common and confiding in the Upper Dibang Valley. 

 Also common in Po Me. It lives at higher elevations than 

 the Monal and Tragopan, and was frequently seen on snow, 

 but, always in forest, and prefers dense undergrowth. Gathers 

 together in flocks of ten to twenty. It does not fly readily. 



" Some Blood Pheasants, probably of this species, were seen 

 on the hills on the right bank of the Tsangpo below Penia- 

 ' kochung at about 11,000 feet. We were told that there were 

 Blood Pheasants in the Tsari Valle3^ Blood Pheasants were 

 also seen on the Poshing Poshingla La in Monyul, probably 

 /. tihetanus, described bj^ Mr. Stuart Baker from a specimen 

 obtained by Captain Moleswoi'th (Bulletin of B.O.C., vol. 

 XXXV., p. 18). The Mishmis trap the Pheasants in their 

 country and also the hill partridges (Arhoricola) in the 

 following \ra.j : — -A light fence is made of twigs about 18 

 inches in height, usually along a contour of the hill in the 

 forest. In this gates are kept open just wide enough to admit 

 a bird, and in these openings a noose made of fine roots and 

 fixed to a bent springy bamboo. The birds when feeding 

 wander down to the fence and do not fly or hop over, but 

 follow it until they reach one of the gates, and the first bird to 

 pass is usually caught." 

 Another writer to me says that he — 



" generally found them feeding in the bamboo jungle which 

 grows up close to the snow-line, but occasionally, especially 

 early in the mornings and late in the evenings, on the open 



