PLATE VI 



NORTHERN BLOOD PARTRIDGE 



Ithagenes sinensis David 



Five hundred miles north of the Himalayas, on the alpine slopes of the Nanshan ranges, lives the 

 Northern Blood Partridge. The Chinese call it Song-hoa-ky, the flower bird of the firs ; and its soft 

 pastel crimson, emerald russet and grey merit well the name. They spend their life among low firs, among 

 thickets of stunted willows and mountain ash. Few white men have seen them, but the Chinese hunters 

 find their coveys easy to approach, for they know little of mankind and fear only the eagles and foxes 

 and leopards which are ever on the lookout for them. 



