with a long blue pendant quail such as brilliant blue sunbirdly fleet crossbills. This mark resembles the Chinese character for longtail + the bird is called by this name (Tao-che). This considered very lucky to shoot one of these birds. I reached camp at 4 P.M. at a small village called Tai-hwa-pong which is on the new road to Teng-yueh, the old road which went thru Tai-ping-po. Henry Dwight dismissed me. Here were remarkably heavy frost clothing to kill + the place looked favorable for mammal collecting. At our camp small mound was only 4 specimen + type Of fresh brown long tail were a flying squirrel at 1 hr where I was waiting for lots. It rained hard at noon remained overcast all day in the P.M. when setting traps on the foot I encountered a large herd of gray