PHOTOGRAVURE 2 



SUMMER HOME OF THE SIKHIM HIMALAYAN BLOOD PARTRIDGE 



Three miles above the sea in the Himalayas the air is rarified, the sunlight is brilliant, the flowers 

 masses of intense colour. The frost splits the rocks and the storms beat upon them with hail and scatter 

 them piecemeal. In the alpine meadows only those low growths find foothold which are pliable and 

 willing to bow before the blasts. 



Tussocks of coarse tundra grass, slender lily stems, creeping juniper holding with knotted fingers to 

 every crevice — these give the touch of life. And to this desolate zone come the Blood Partridges in spring, 

 and here they nest among the shrubs in sheltered gullies, and search among the tussocks for seeds and 

 insect life, or dust themselves in the rock debris on the leeward sunny side of the great jagged ridges. 



