LSH/1/1/3/3/114
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1933-04-09
Part of The Ludlow & Sherriff Collection
SUMMARY:
Lists pheasant species around Li-kiang with Ibis references and distribution notes across Yunnan, N.E. Burma, Mishmi Hills, and Szechwan, including regional divides. Also notes that ancient Li-kiang has a few stone houses, mostly ruined government buildings with flat roofs and bamboo, and only an old man and woman living there.
CONTENT:
Birds of the neighbourhood of Li-kiang. Reid Ibis 46
The Pheasants in the neighbourhood of Li-kiang are extremely interesting & quite different from those of the Manas basin.
- Lophophorus sclateri - Sclater's Monal - Ibis 376 - exclusive to the basin of Shweli-Salween divide in Yunnan.
- Tragopan temminckii - Temminck's Tragopan. Ibis 379. Yunnan, N.E. Burma, Mishmi Hills.
- Ithaginis cruentus kuseri - Kuser's Blood Pheasant. Ibis 381. Yunnan, also further east in Yunnan. West of Salween-Mekong divide.
- Tetraophasis szechenyii - Ibis 382-3. Yunnan & Szechwan, also N.W. Szechwan. The Tibetan Pheasant.
- Crossoptilon crossoptilon harmani - Ibis 377. (Blue Eared Pheasant)
L. p. 71 Li-kiang (ancient) a few stone houses, most of govt. are in ruins. Flat roofs. Any split bamboo wood sloping. Only inhabitants an old man & woman.