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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



From the trail which bounds 

 Nepal, Sikkim and Tibet, 

 we made many long side 

 trips before we were suc- 

 cessful. However, we per- 

 severed and ultimately found 

 and studied, at various alti- 

 tudes, all the groups of 

 eastern Himalayan pheas- 

 ants. 



Beginning with the ele- 

 vation of Darjeeling and on 

 up to nine thousand feet we 

 found the oak zone inhabit- 

 ed by the Black-Backed 

 K a 1 i j Pheasants, (Gen- 

 naeus) ; the next two thou- 

 sand feet, characterized by 

 the paper lilac shrubs and 

 lofty rhododendron trees in 

 full bloom, was the home of the Saty 

 pans, (Trago-pan) ; then from eleven 

 thousand feet came grand forests 



AT PONGATAUNG ON THE NORTHERN 

 BURMA— YUNNAN FRONTIER. 



Our Malay boy and a Kachin hunter with a 

 hen pheasant. 



ra Trago- 

 to twelve 

 of pines, 



wild native liillm 

 through Garhw 

 Tibetan border. 



where the Impeyan Pheas- 

 ants, (Lophophorus), dwelt, 

 although these sturdy birds 

 were often found thousands 

 of feet higher in the tree- 

 less zone where the Blood 

 Pheasant, (Ithagenes) — 

 hardiest of all, — makes its 

 home among the bare bould- 

 ers and the summer snows. 



Returning to Calcutta 



about May first, we left the 



city two days later for the 



f a r north-western H i m a - 



layas. Here, as everywhere 



in British possessions, 



through the courtesy of the 



government officials we were 



enabled to outfit quickly and 



with mountain horses and 



en as carriers, we made our way 



1 into Kashmir close to the 



Here we were fortunate in ob- 



rHREE CHIEFS OF THE HEAD-HUNTING SEA-DYAKS, CENTRAL BORNEO. 



