. Zoological Society bulletin . Ceylon, while wildbuffalo, boars, elephantsaxis and sambar deer andwanderoo monkeys werepresent in numbers. Sailing northward to Cal-cutta we were the guests ofDr. Annandale, Superin-tendent of the Indian Mus-eum, and through his cour-tesy I was permitted t ostudy thoroughly the splen- did collection of Phasian-idae in the Indian week after arrival we leftCalcutta for the easternHimalaya s, outfitting atDarjeeling on the northernborder of India. W i t hthirty-two Tibetan men andwomen coolies we left thislast outpost of civilizationand on small Tibetan p
. Zoological Society bulletin . Ceylon, while wildbuffalo, boars, elephantsaxis and sambar deer andwanderoo monkeys werepresent in numbers. Sailing northward to Cal-cutta we were the guests ofDr. Annandale, Superin-tendent of the Indian Mus-eum, and through his cour-tesy I was permitted t ostudy thoroughly the splen- did collection of Phasian-idae in the Indian week after arrival we leftCalcutta for the easternHimalaya s, outfitting atDarjeeling on the northernborder of India. W i t hthirty-two Tibetan men andwomen coolies we left thislast outpost of civilizationand on small Tibetan pon-ies, made our way north-ward over difficult trails andthrough the most magnifi-cent scenery in the world. With Everest and Kin-chinjunga in full view wepushed on higher and higheru n t i 1 we passed throughevery zone up to the verysnows. Locating t h e pheasantsproved to be exceedinglydifficult, and obtaining them was still harder, es-pecially at the higher altitudes where the scar-city of oxygen made all exertion PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHING HIMALAYAN PHEASANT April, elevation 12,000 feet. Tibetan Mountains in the distance. 766 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. From the trail which boundsNepal, Sikkim and Tibet,we made many long sidetrips before we were suc-cessful. However, we per-severed and ultimately foundand studied, at various alti-tudes, all the groups ofeastern Himalayan pheas-ants. Beginning with the ele-vation of Darjeeling and onup to nine thousand feet wefound the oak zone inhabit-ed by the Black-BackedK a 1 i j Pheasants, (Gen-naeus); the next two thou-sand feet, characterized bythe paper lilac shrubs andlofty rhododendron trees infull bloom, was the home of the Satypans, (Trago-pan) ; then from eleventhousand feet came grand forests
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