Part 8 - Field notes at Lingmathang and Gautsa: aquatic plants, fish passage idea, and bird shooting

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GB 235 LSH/1/1/6/1/8

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Field notes at Lingmathang and Gautsa: aquatic plants, fish passage idea, and bird shooting

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  • 1938-06-06 (Creation)

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(1898-1967)

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SUMMARY:
Notes record aquatic plant specimens near Lingmathang and observations of Primula sikkimensis above Gautsa. The writer considers a fish ladder around a waterfall above Gautsa, mentions fatigue and sneezing from cold wind, and reports shooting a mallard, pintail, and teal at the hot springs.

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3581 Ranunculus? In stream flowing through Lingmathang.
3582 Equisetum sp? In spring water to W. of Lingmathang.

Ludlow 6
What a magnificent stairway
round the Lingmathang plain
would make but the waterfall
above Gautsa would have to
be outflanked by a winding
channel or ladder for the fish
could not descend in its
present state

Primula sikkimensis common above Gautsa till above the tree zone.

Ludlow 7
I was very tired. The cold
wind in my nostrils gave me the
usual sneezing fits and a
running nose

Ludlow 7.
I shot a mallard, a pintail
and a teal at the hot springs.

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