PHOTOGRAVURE 12 



YUNNAN HOME OF SCLATER'S IMPEYAN 



The steep slope of sprouting bamboo was most terrible to climb. I made my way through the shaded 

 ravine running obliquely upward through the centre. On the way up, I found innumerable traces of barking 

 deer and Silver Pheasants, and I disturbed a king cobra from his den at the foot of a wild banana. At 

 the summit, beyond a tangle of caladiums and painted leaves, I encountered the three Impeyans. The 

 full-plumaged cock was scratching among the undergrowth shown in the lower photograph, and at my blind 

 shot fell in the same place. The others flew up a few feet beyond and scaled out of sight down the 

 opposite slope. 



