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SUMMARY:
Notes on Lilium growing in dense forest at Yongbu La, with the summit opening to grassy downs affording excellent grazing for cattle. Birds observed include skylarks, greenfinches, and titlarks, with a specimen entry noted as 2421 ♂ Passer domesticus.

CONTENT:
2421 ♂ Passer domesticus.

p. 30
Yongbu La
Lilium - like L. giganteum it loves
dense shade & we found it in
heavy forest competing quite
successfully with a host of trees
& shrubs in the dense undergrowth.
Top of the Yongbu La opens to a
series of grassy downs affording
excellent grazing for cattle. Skylarks
on the summit & also greenfinches
& titlarks.

SUMMARY:
The diarist, after a sleepless night, spends the day labelling and packing seeds and bulbs of lilies (including L. giganteum and L. wallichianum), notes a recovering Tibetan companion who will continue as far as Trashigong, and awaits mail. He reprimands Kurtip for distributing quinine, struggles with scarce coolies, sends on 20 loads, and records the next stage to Shali with a brief route note.

CONTENT:
704

Lilies. giganteum
Lil. wallichianum
Lil. karsum 1041
Notholirion bulbuliferum 717

had so many before as in my bed last night. How they got in I don't know, but from 11:00 pm on, I never got a wink of sleep. Spent the day labelling and packing up seeds and bulbs of L. giganteum, L. wallichianum and two other lilies 717 and 1041. Tibetan much better, and think beginning to enjoy life again. But he must come on with us tomorrow as far as Trashigong at least. No news of the mail yet.

When we left here for Sawa I gave Kurtip a 100-bottle of Quinine and told him to take 3 a day. After nine days I find only 38 left. Naturally was very angry with him. He had been giving them to various people round about. I would cheerfully leave all my money and clothes about and neither Kurtip nor any of the others would touch them. But medicine, especially quinine, is more than they can resist, and I suppose, should never be left in their charge. Coolies are scarce here, so we sent on 20 loads today. We go with the same lot again tomorrow. The small boys came up again for loads this morning, but were turned empty away.

11th October. To SHALI. 12 miles. Ht. 6349'. (BP 201.0 Temp 78°).
Path crosses the river just above the Dzong and climbs up the left bank. It is good nearly the whole way, but

SUMMARY:
Collected several flowers including scented Maddenii-series rhododendrons (specimens 2332, 2334, 2338); noted dense jungle like near Lao in Bhutan, scarce leeches, numerous ticks, and no Pnoepyga, and considered marching down the Chayul Chu. On 11 July, traveled 7 miles to Natrampa in heavy rain and shot two birds near arrival, the same species previously sought near Lung.

CONTENT:
Didymocarpus aromatica 2333, Pedic. integrifolia 2339. 120

This afternoon we got several flowers, the two most interesting were two rhododendrons. One No. 2332 (Rhod. crassum 2332, 2338), 2338 is the same, a beautiful Maddenii ser. rhododendron with a scent which we got from a long way away. Another pretty one 2334 ("igneum" 2334 sp. nov.), like a R. cinnabarinum, only bigger I think, with fewer flowers. These were rather surprises to me, but I have seen Maddenii in flower nearly as late as this at Sanden. Got a few butterflies too, but all are in bad condition. The jungle 4 miles down is very dense, like that near Lao in Bhutan. Leeches were scarce however, and ticks still pretty numerous. Saw no Pnoepyga at all, although the jungle is just what they should be in, nor other birds of interest. It would be interesting to go 3–4 marches down the Chayul Chu in June or even now. All L. giganteum are over now.

11th July. Natrampa. 7 miles. Rained hard all night, and most of today. Nothing of interest on the way up, except two birds I shot just before reaching here, the same as I had tried to get on my way to Lung. The heavy rain had swollen all the side