PHOTOGRAVURE 2 



SUMMER HOME OF THE SIKHIM HIMAYAN BLOOD PARTRIDGE 



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

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

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

 willing to bow before the blasts. 



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

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

 and here they nest among the shrubs in sheltered gullies, an<a rcn among the tussocks for seeds and 

 insect life, or dust themselves in the rock debris on the leewarc ln y side of the great jagged ridges. 



