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Title: Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Howard-Bury, Charles, 1881- Leigh-Mallory, George Herbert, 1886-1924
Subjects: Mount Everest Expedition, 1921
Publisher: New York Longmans, Green and co. London, E. Arnold & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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I watched at close distance a red fox stalking a pair of bar-headed geese, a most interesting sight, and had the satisfaction of saving the birds by firing a shot in the air with my small collecting gun just as the fox was about to pounce on his intended victim. Tinki Dzong is a veritable bird sanctuary. The Dzong itself is a rambling fort covering a dozen or so of acres, and about its was nest hundreds of birds— ravens, magpies, red-billed choughs, tree-sparrows, hoopoes, Indian redstarts, Hodgsons pied wagtails and rock-doves. In the shallow pool outside the Dzong were swimming bar-headed geese and ruddy shelducks, with famlies of young birds, all as tame as domestic poultry. A pair of white storks was seen here in June, but they did not appear to be breeding. In the autumn the lakes in this neighbourhood are the resort of large packs of widgeon, gadwall and pochard. The Jongpen explained to us that it was the particular wish of the Dalai Lama that no birds should be molested here, and for several
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JUNIPERS IN THE KAMA VALLEY.
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES
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years two lamas lived at Tinki, whose special business it was 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 to a plain of a different character, miles of blown sand heaped here and there into enormous dunes, on which grows a yellow-flowering gorse. Here, near Chushar, we first met with rose-finches (Severtzoffs and Przjewalsks) and the brownground-chough (Podoces humilis): the last-named is a remarkable-looking bird, which progresses by a series of apparently top-heavy bounds, at the end of which it turns round to steady itself; in the middle of June it was feeding its young in nests at the bottom of deep holes in sand or old mud walls. Following up the valley of the Bhong-chu we crossed the river by a stone bridge near Shekar Dzong. Here we found a colony of white-rumped swifts nesting high up...

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