PLATE V 



GEOFFROY'S BLOOD PARTRIDGE 



Ithagenes geoffroyi Verreaux 



Still dominated by the majesty of Kinchinjunga, although from a wholly new angle, we find this 

 species of Blood Partridge among the snowy uplands of Eastern Tibet. In pairs, or usually in small-sized 

 flocks, they glean a livelihood among the cold-stunted vegetation of the alpine meadows. The nine birds 

 which I saw together had their pleasing grey and emerald plumage set off by a mass of blossoms which 

 only the brief summers of these altitudes can bring forth — white anemones, yellow saxifrage, and blue 

 gentians that matched the sky above the distant snow peaks. 



