ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



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DAK BUNGALOW ON THE NEPAL— S1KK1M FRONTIER. 

 Our Tibetan women coolies preparing for the day's march. Elevation 10,000 feet 



photographs of nests, eggs and general environ- 

 ment, and exhaustive notes on plumages, habits, 

 general ecology and hybridization. 



Through this most inter- 

 esting country we travelled 

 by bullock cart, with Sin- 

 ghalese servants and guides. 



In the semi-arid coastal 

 region we found wild life 

 extremely abundant. With- 

 in ten days I noted ninety- 

 five species of birds, one 

 quarter of the entire avi- 

 fauna of Ceylon, while wild 

 buffalo, boars, elephants 

 axis and sambar deer and 

 wanderoo monkeys were 

 present in numbers. 



Sailing northward to Cal- 

 cutta we were the guests of 

 Dr. Annandale, Superin- 

 tendent of the Indian Mus- 

 eum, and through his cour- 

 tesy I was permitted t o 

 study thoroughly the splen- 



did collection of Phasian- 

 idae in the Indian Museum. 

 A week after arrival we left 

 Calcutta for the eastern 

 Himalaya s, outfitting at 

 Darjeeling on the northern 

 border of India. W i t h 

 thirty-two Tibetan men and 

 women coolies we left this 

 last outpost of civilization 

 and on small Tibetan pon- 

 ies, made our way north- 

 ward over difficult trails and 

 through the most magnifi- 

 cent scenery in the world. 



With Everest and Kin- 

 chinjunga in full view we 

 pushed on higher and higher 

 u n t i 1 we passed through 

 every zone up to the very 

 snows. 



Locating t h e pheasants 

 proved to be exceedingly 

 difficult, and obtaining them was still harder, es- 

 pecially at the higher altitudes where the scar- 

 city of oxygen made all exertion fatiguing. 



PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHING HIMALAYAN PHEASANT COUNTRY. 

 Mid April, elevation 12,000 feet. Tibetan Mountains in the distance. 



