Part 151 - Nathampa and Trün: Rhododendron collecting and field notes, 27–28 October

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SUMMARY:
Field notes from Nathampa and Trün describe rhododendron seed collecting, generally fine weather with some rain and evening snow up the Karutra valley, and a lost woodpecker after a shot. Ticks are noted as troublesome, and Tsongpen suffers from fever, possibly due to the cold valley wind.

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further up, and they may have frightened off any tragopan there may have been. Nothing of interest seen on the way up. Rhododendrons at the nala 1 m below camp are by no means ripe, and I fear they won't come on, although I have taken twigs and marked the ends. Fine till the afternoon when a little rain. Clouded most of the day over on the hills.

Nathampa
27th October. Halt. - A perfect day: in the evening some snow up the Karutra valley. Tsongpen and I went up the Rhododendron valley, and did pretty well. We got seeds of 8 or 9 rhododendrons, mostly fully ripe. It is odd how much earlier they are here than at Lung, presumably because it is wetter at Lung. I shot a woodpecker, but it fell down into a hole among rocks, which led down further than we could see, and we had to give it up. No sign of blood pheasant or of tragopan. On the whole one of the better days. Ticks a nuisance. They are very common now at Lung and here, mostly in the bamboo jungle.

28th October. Trün. 8m? Fine all day, but rain on the hills, and clouded over most of the day. Tsongpen has fever today, caused I suppose by the cold wind there is always blowing up the valley all day. He thinks it is tick fever, but I don't think they have

Rhodod. 2757
Trichocladum 2758
exasperatum 2759 2761
camelliaeflorum 2760 2765
pumilum 2762
brachyanthum 2764
tsarongense 2766
oblatum 2770
Enkianthus deflexus 2733