. Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921. I watched at close distance a red fox stalking a pairof bar-headed geese, a most interesting sight, and had thesatisfaction of saving the buds by firing a shot in the airwith my small collecting gmi just as the fox was about topounce on his intended victim. Tinki Dzong is a veritable bird sanctuary. The Dzongitself is a rambling fort covering a dozen or so of acres, andabout its waUs nest hundreds of birds—ravens, magpies,red-billed choughs, tree-sparrows, hoopoes, Indian redstarts,Hodgsons pied wagtails and rock-doves. In the shallowpool outside the
. Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921. I watched at close distance a red fox stalking a pairof bar-headed geese, a most interesting sight, and had thesatisfaction of saving the buds by firing a shot in the airwith my small collecting gmi just as the fox was about topounce on his intended victim. Tinki Dzong is a veritable bird sanctuary. The Dzongitself is a rambling fort covering a dozen or so of acres, andabout its waUs nest hundreds of birds—ravens, magpies,red-billed choughs, tree-sparrows, hoopoes, Indian redstarts,Hodgsons pied wagtails and rock-doves. In the shallowpool outside the Dzong were swimming bar-headed geeseand ruddy shelducks, with famflies of young birds, all astame as domestic poultry. A pair of white storks was seenhere in June, but they did not appear to be breeding. Inthe autumn the lakes m this neighbourhood are the resort oflarge packs of widgeon, gadwall and pochard. The Jongpenexplained to us that it was the particular wish of the DalaiLama that no birds should be molested here, and for several. JUNUERS THE KAMA VaLLEY. NATURAL HISTORY NOTES 295 years two lamas lived at Tinki, whose special business itwas to protect the birds. Crossing over a pass of about 17,000 feet (Tinki La),the slopes gay with a little purple and white daphne {Stellera),said by the natives to be poisonous to animals, we came toa plain of a different character, mUes of blown sand heapedhere and there into enormous dunes, on which grows a yellow-flowering gorse. Here, near Chushar, we first met withrose-fiinches (Severtzoffs and Przjewalsks) and the brownground-chough {Podoces humilis): the last-named is aremarkable-looking bird, which progresses by a series ofapparently top-heavy bounds, at the end of which it turnsround to steady itself; in the middle of June it was feedingits young in nests at the bottom of deep holes in sand or oldmud walls. Following up the valley of the Bhong-chu we crossedthe river by a stone bridge near Shekar Dzong. Here wefound a col
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