bring home. If and when this lovely wood is exported to England, it should command a very good price, as it must be very durable. For I found a prostrate log of Benihi , much of which was still sound, though a tree 200 or 300 years old (judging from its size) was growing on the top of it.
On March 1st we started for the camp on the other side of the mountain where Goodfellow was living, and, though the path was too steep and rocky to use a chair, I reached it in about five hours. Along the ridge at about 8,000 to 8,500 feet I found a species of Hemlock, Spruces, some Cephalotaxus , and Rhododendrons growing on the rocks but not in flower. A remarkable evergreen tree, Trochodendron aralioides , also found in Japan and hardy in the South of England, was scattered through the forest here. On this ridge I saw a small flock of Suthora morrisonianum and another of Actinodura , exactly the birds which I should expect to find in a similar place in Sikkim, though both the species are distinct and endemic. On reaching Goodfcllow’s camp wc found him very joyful, as the savages w r hom he was employing to snare Mikado pheasants for him had just brought in two living males in fine plumage, The birds are caught by snares, set on the forest path and baited with berries of what seemed to be an Aralia , but the savages are too lazy to visit their snares often enough, and several of the birds they caught were injured or dead before they found them. Goodfellow, who is a very clever man with live birds, after living several weeks here eventually succeeded in bringing alive to England seven males and three females of this beautiful bird. From two of them which I purchased I bred in the next two years a fair number of young birds, which have been successfully acclimatised at Woburn, and, though naturally very shy, seem to thrive very well in the climate of England. The camp, where we stayed two nights in a hut covered with a water¬ proof sheet, was closely surrounded by dense Cypress forest. In the holes of these trees live two large species of very beautiful flying squirrels which seem to be nocturnal in their habits and were only procured with much trouble.
The next morning I took a long walk alone in the hope of seeing a Mikado pheasant on the path in the early morning, but I saw none and very few other birds except the Nutcracker, and a black and white Woodpecker. Kikuchi, who had come back with Price from Taihoku, and was an expert collector, found three examples only of what were eventually proved to be the seedlings of Taiwa?iia , having narrow needle-shaped leaves entirely unlike the short leaves of the adult tree. The forest was almost entirely composed of Cypress with a few Taiwania here and there, but no huge trees as at Arisan, I found a great cave which was much used by the savages for camping in. In the evening they brought in the meat of a mountain goat-antelope, Nemorhedus , which they had killed, but the head and skin were missing, and, though I offered a large reward, my endeavour to procure a specimen of this rare animal, dead or alive, was fruitless. These aborigines were not at all willing to work for us, and were only kept in camp by the presence of a Japanese police¬ man, who spoke their language. In the night we heard a fox bark near our camp, as well as flying squirrels, but we saw none. The temperature
