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Again, higher up there were small mammals. Returning one day from the 

 summit, I saw a brown Pica hare dart into a hole under the Rhododendron scrub, 

 and I sat down to watch. Presently he peeped out again, took a look at me, and 

 emerged. Sitting up at the entrance to his home, he first rubbed his face all over 

 with his paws, hke a squirrel ; then began to Uck his breast and belly, twisting 

 his head round beneath his fore paws and polishing away energetically. But he 

 kept an eye on me, darting into his hole if I moved, only to re-appear almost 

 instantly. 



The specimen of a Pica I obtained was shot by a Lisu with the cross bow. I 

 saw the little animal pop into its hole close to my tent one morning, and called 

 up one of the Lisus, who stood by with his cross-bow strung, when presently 

 he came out, the Lisu let fly at ten yards range and pinned the Pica to the ground. 

 Towards the end of August I saw the first herd of Takin on Imaw Bum — fourteen 

 of them. They were on a spur below me and not far away ; six of them were 

 lying down in the short Rhododendron scrub, with their stumpy fore legs thrust 

 out straight in front of them ; the rest were grazing. One or two were on the 

 look out. I was particularly struck by the peculiar sea-roll of their walk, and the 

 swaying of the head from side to side. But they looked even more odd when 

 they broke into a run lumbering down the slope, yet leaping nimbly from rock 

 to rock on the rough screes. The long hair fringing the chest and shoulders, 

 and the short stumpy legs, gave them almost the appearance of Yak in the dis- 

 tance, though the horns and bob-tail at once betrayed them for what they really 

 were. 



In colour this species has the face and legs soot black, the lower half of the 

 flanks, neck, belly, rump and tail dark brown to black ; back, extending thence 

 half way over the flanks, pale yellow, except for a sharply defined black line down 

 the centre, and the upper half of the neck pale yellow. This may therefore be 

 the Mishmi species, B. taxicolor ; on the other hand it may not. 



