Identificatie
referentie code
Titel
Datum(s)
- 1938-07-01 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Omvang en medium
1 page
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
SUMMARY:
Records bird observations, including a cuckoo on 01/07/1938 near Simbitanka and a large black woodpecker nest at Peteng, and notes disposal of a spoiled blackbird specimen. Provides route instructions along the right bank of the Tsangpo via Simbitanka, Yüsum, Perudu, Peteng, and Miling, with remarks on bridges and transport changes.
CONTENT:
43a
On way to Lilung
BIRDS. Big black woodpecker. Several seen in pinus forest.
No 7. Green Woodpecker. Three seen, feeding on the ground in pinus forest.
No 8. Nuthatch. Common. This is, I think, a young bird, one of a bunch of 5 or 6 seen together.
No 9. Jay. One or two. Awful plumage.
No 10. Cuckoo. 1/7/38. Among shrubs in sand dunes near Simbitanka.
Had to destroy No 6 the blackbird, which had gone very bad.
X. 1 Follow the right bank of the Tsangpo down the whole way. No villages are passed till Simbitanka is reached at m 9. The path is good nearly all the way, but if the Tsangpo is high, or its branches flow near the R. bank, as they sometimes do, some fording may be necessary.
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YÜSUM. 7 miles. Cross the side valley stream just beyond Simbitanka by a bridge at m 1/2. Thence path good the whole way. At m 2 pass TRONGSA, where transport is changed. Another village with a good deal of cultivation is passed before reaching Yüsum at m 7. Transport changed.
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MILING. 7 miles. Leave Yüsum, keeping well into the valley mouth where there is a bridge over the unfordable stream. Thence to PERUDU at m 2. Change transport. From here path level & good to PETENG m 4, change transport. At m 5, a large side valley has to be crossed. There was no bridge in 1938, but the stream can be forded easily except when in flood. At Miling there is extensive cultivation, many old ruins or village of about 15-20 houses. NAYÜ is at the mouth of the valley just E of Miling. There is usually a bridge between the two places, but it has been washed away. Miling to Nayü 1 m.
Birds
No. 11 & 12. Large black Woodpecker. Shot at PETENG, where they are pretty common in the pinus on the North face. The young bird was inside a tree. The hole was about 3" across & the nest was two feet below the hole, formed of old rotted wood. There were in all three young. Nest in old dead pinus tree. These birds seem to favour burnt out pinus forests, I have always heard them in such.
