PHOTOGRAVURE 7 



YUNNAN HOME OF TEMMINCK'S TRAGOPAN 



A cock Temminck's Tragopan was perched on the dead stub in the right-hand foreground ten minutes 

 before the picture was taken. It leaped down and I secured it among the everlastings and bamboo stubble 

 of the lower photograph. This was a typical Chinese wilderness devoid of trails or evidence of mankind, 

 while the vegetation was gnarled and seared by the blasts which ever swept down from the snows. It was 

 autumn and the leaves and trunks were as colourless as the overcast sky. Against this background the 

 magnificent bird showed like a glowing coal. 



