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hills the natives fed them solely on soaked paddy. In captivity they enjoyed salad-like 

 foods, such as chopped lettuce, onions, potatoes and carrots, and were keen on insects of 

 all descriptions, roaches, beetles, grasshoppers and mealworms. The males did not care 

 for each other's presence in the same cage, often pecking and plucking angrily at one 

 another. The birds which the Bhotias sometimes bring down to Darjeeling are 

 apparently all hand-reared, as they are young and very tame and show no signs of 

 disfigurement from dashing against the cage tops. In the following year (1912) ten 

 more Blood Partridges, together with eleven Tibetan snowcocks, were secured, but 

 every one succumbed to the Calcutta heat, even before starting on their voyage. 



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TEXT IDENTIFICATIONS 



Himalayan Skylark. Alauda gulgula gulgula Frankl. 

 Primroses. Primula petiolaris Wall. 

 Lammergeier. Gypaetus barbatus (Linn.). 

 Vinous-throated Pipit. Anthus roseatus Blyth. 

 Sikhim Vole. Microtus sikimensis (Hodgs.). 

 Himalayan Tortoise-shell Butterfly. Vanessa cashniirensis Koll. 

 White-capped Redstart. Chaimorrornis leucocephala (Vig.). 

 Himalayan Grey Fox. Vulpes alopex montanus Pears. 

 Hooker, quoted in Hume, *' Game Birds, India," I. p. 156. 

 Silver Fir. Abies webbiana Lind. 



Rhododendron forests. Rhododendron arboreum, falconeri, etc. 

 Mountain bamboo. Dendrocalamus hamiltonii Nees and Arnott. 

 Juniper. Juniperus sp. 



Himalayan Nutcracker. Nucifraga caryocatactes hemispila Vig. 

 Sikhim Cole Tit. Parus rufonuchalis beavani (Jerd.). 

 Hooker, " Himalayan Journals," 1855. 

 Blanford, "Fauna, British India," IV. 1898, p. 104. 

 Hodgson, quoted in Hume, "Game Birds, India," I., 1878, p. 155. 

 Scarlet berries. Hemiphragma heterophyllum Wall. 

 Sikhim White Rose. Rosa sericea Lind. 

 Himalayan Lily. Lilium sp. 



Himalayan Raven. Corvus corax tibetanum Hodgs. 

 Earwigs. Homotages feae (Bormans). 

 Forficula planticollis Kirby. 

 Ladybird Beetles. Coccinella y -punctata Linn. 



Two small Flies. An undescribed Criorhina and a member of the Cordyhiridae, 

 Rove Beetle. Osonius beebei Beurh. 

 Chrysomelid Beetles. Trichotheca hirta Baly. 

 Carab Beetle. Opisthius indicus Chaudoir. 

 Weevil, Tanymecus sp. 

 Moth. A Noctuid. 

 Homopteron. Of the family Jassidae. 

 Impeyan or Monal. Lophophorus impeyanus Lath. 

 Cheer. Catreus wallicki (Hdivdw.). -' 



Dholes. Cyon javanicus dukhuensis Sykes. 

 Hooker, quoted in Elliot, "Monograph Phasianidae," II. 

 Snowcocks. Tetraogallus tibetanus Gould. 

 Beech Marten. Mustela foina Erxleb. 



Himalayan Leopards. Felis pardus Linn., and F. nebulosa Griff. 

 Golden Eagle. Aquila chrysaetos (Linn.). 

 Bonelli's Eagle. Hieraetus fasciatus (Vieill). 

 Waddell, " Lhasa and its Mysteries," p. 139. 

 Blanford, " Fauna British India, Birds," IV. p. 104 

 Hooker, quoted in Elliot, "Monograph Phasianidae," II. 

 Jerdon, quoted in Elliot, " Monograph Phasianidae," II. 

 Masson, " Game-birds of Darjeeling," p. 14. 

 Blood Partridges in England, Seth-Smith, " Avicultural Magazine," (3), H. p. 303. 



