In “Electronic Navigators” (October) your Loran position readout on the artwork is given as +30° 17.2’ lat. and -90° 90.6’ long. If we accept the convention that plus latitudes are north of the equator and minus longitudes are east of Greenwich, this places the vessel in the Hsi-Tsang Tzu-Chih-Ch’u Province (Tibetan Autonomous Region) of China. In other words, about 285 miles northeast of Mt. Everest. Who is the skipper? Is there a load of paired animals aboard? What is the vessel’s LOA (in cubits)? Is it raining a lot there? Mo Prophet Nazareth, Pa. Both the CIA and the National Council of Churches are investigating.]
1986, C. Inskipp, T.P. Inskipp, “Some important birds and forest in Nepal”, in Forktail[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54:
The species may be divided into three groups: (1) 24 entirely confined to the Himalayas, or extending marginally into the hills of Afghanistan in the west (one species just reaches the USSR, where it is rare), into neighbouring Xizang Zizhiqu (Tibet) to the north, or, in the case of two species, also into the hills of north-eastern India; (2) 88 with distributions as above but extending either south-east in the uplands through northern Burma to, in the case of some species, northern Viet Nam, or north-east further into China (four species have disjunct populations in Taiwan and one other has a tiny isolated pocket in south-east China); (3) ten that occur in lowland areas adjacent to the hills referred to in the first two groups.
The species's total population is estimated at between 1,400 and 1,500; the main breeding area is probably Chang Tang, Xizang Zizhiqu, but counts are not available, and the known wintering populations include an estimated total of 800 in China, excluding Lhasa, Xizang Zizhiqu, where a further 140 winter (per D. A. Scott; see also Robson 1986), and between 500 and 600 in Bhutan (Clements and Bradbear 1986).
Tibet (Hsi-tsang Tzu-chih-chü). Today the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, the almost mythical country of Tibet is bordered by the Chinese province of Tsinghai on the northeast, Szechwan on the east, Yunnan on the southeast, Nepal, Bhutan and Burma (Myanmar) on the south, Jammu and Kashmir (disputed by India) on the west, and the Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region on the northwest. The capital is Lhasa.]
