Grouse Flushed a pair; young flying before its mother 100 feet or so of summit in a place where dense long grass covered an old talus slope. Pycnopigeus Saw one this within a few hundred feet of summit of ridge, where a few scattered bushes grow up under a cliff face. Many rat runs amongst grass and talus--big runs. September 18th September 18th. Fine AM, beginning to cloud om peak at 10.30 but occasionally clear until 2 PM or so when it began to rain and hail. Going clear tonight. Today went along grass valley to where there is a break to north--sketch on previous page. Petroeca rubra New Sp. Only above 4000 ft--4,000-4200--saw 4 then 6; Brass saw 2, then 1, on rocks and tussocks of moss. Grouse Saw 6, perhaps 9, above grass and flushed one σ--at 2 feet from hide under tussock of grass each time ♀ 3--then later singles perhaps of same parties; 10 ♂♀ birds flushed at various times; one σ walked by me at 6 feet behind rock calling hmmm-ummm Lonchura In grass and rocks under cliff at 4200m. Turdus V. F. but high--up into cliff at 4200 m ± Salvadorina sp Tracks in mud around lake, just below peak; about lake nearly 4200 m. Calicaria Hindunacea 6 or 8 over lake at 4150 m. Antheas Common among rocks and in high country. Sometimes parties up to 5. Melidectes b. Only as far as patches of trees went--4100 m. Pycnopigeus biz Did not go up into treeless Scree Valley. Tyta tembicora sp? Flushed one from under rock in coarse talus above timber at 4000 m. Picked up fresh pellet containing remains of immature mallomys.