202: BREEDING CROSSOPTILON 
the most likely places, and they brought in at different 
times about a hundred eggs, which are of a light olive 
dun colour. Broody hens were procured, not without 
difficulty, and these, with clutches of eggs, were dis- 
tributed among such of thenative converts as had suitable 
places for rearing the young birds. The heathen natives 
could not be trusted with such things, being much more 
rough and less reliable. In the end I got a good per- 
centage hatched out, and fifty-three were alive at Kia- 
ting-fu, having been carried down from Ta-tsien-lu by 
coolies. Being so young, the journey was too severe, 
and many were in a bad state of health from the over- 
land journey. Losses were heavy going down the river, 
and I only succeeded in getting five home alive. I put 
this heavy mortality down to the birds being too young 
to travel. If I could have left them till the next year, I 
feel confident I should have succeeded in bringing 
nearly all home alive. The year before, Mgr. Biet gave 
me an adult specimen that had been hatched and reared 
in his aviary, and this bird stood the passage perfectly 
well. It is, with the others I brought home, now in the 
gardens of the Royal Zoological Society, Regent’s Park. 
Another bird, a specimen of which I brought home. 
alive, is the Lophophorus Lhuysu. This magnificent 
species inhabits high altitudes near the snow line, and has. 
never before been brought alive to Europe. They: are 
