Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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Shooting for the Chukars was very stiff Till once the birds were flushed. They sailed across a ravine to the other side, it was a type of or so then ran out of shells and I had unexpected Delbart no idea if the ammunition was deep down in my rifle boxes. The Chukars give a rapid fire clicking call plane while their name is choked. They are beautiful birds, about the size of a sniped grouse. The [illegible] of brown & red & hair are blend most delicately to the black bars in the wing coverts give a remarkable contrast to the dark colors. We saw hundreds of them both at one time in a water but also many flocks of bearded partridges. The latter about the size of a bob white fly more rapidly than the chukars & get up with a metallic whistling which is not startling. They are not such rock lovers as the Chukars but we found them high ups on the grassy slopes of the mts. & often both this species were flushed from the same place, but the two were mixed.