Part 118 - Chayul Valley work and Himalayan Crossbill observations; route via Tawang to Dewangiri

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SUMMARY:
Sherriff went up to the Chayul Valley, working around the Kashong La and Lung area, while the diarist collected Himalayan Crossbill specimens feeding on larch cones. Notes indicate a return to Tsona and travel to Sakden via Tawang, then to Dewangiri.

CONTENT:
Sherriff went up to the Chayul Valley to work round Ludlow Sherriff
the Kashong La, the Lung neighbourhood. Separate
I got lovely specimens of a bird I have been on the look out for
years - the Himalayan Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra himalayensis.
A number of them in mixed birch, silver fir & larch forest. They were
feeding almost entirely on the cones of the larch.
See Ibis. 348. T Aug. 6.

L. D. return to Tsona & from there to Sakden via Tawang - then
to Dewangiri.