INDEX 



Acacia Catechu, 1^2 



Act of 191 2, Indian Wild Birds and 

 Animals Protection, 269 



Act of 1912, Reflections on, 271 



Antelope, Four-horned, 16, 53 



Ant-lion, the, i 59 



Ant, the red, 222, 223 



Ants, white, ^7, 225 



Apis dorsata, 88, 221 



Arakan District, 103 



Assam and Bengal Duars, descrip- 

 tion of tract, 126 



Bamboo, the muli, 121 



— thorns, 145 

 Barasingha, 87, 90 



Barking deer, 16, 53, 56, 102, 105, 

 141 



and young, 92 



Bassia lati folia, 37 



Bear, 4, 16, 53 



Bear — an episode and near shave, 



47 



— beating for, 32, 33, 38 



— beating — out of caves, 44 



— fatal shots for, 45 



— homes of, 33, 91 



— Indian black, 16, 33, ^7, 141 



— the mute, 96 



— young, 94 



Bears and toddy, 142 

 Bee, the big, 88, 221 

 Bees, to protect from, 21 1 

 Bengal Duars and Assam, descrip- 

 tion of country, 126 

 Berars, the, 68 

 Bhabar grass, 6 

 Bhutan Hills, 128 

 Bird life in Bay of Bengal, 100 

 Bishu, shikari, 5 

 Bison, charged by a, 13, 60, 226 



— episode, a, 57 



— habits of, 54 



— herds of, 52 



— plare to shoot, 148 



— the American, 4 



— the Indian, 4, 79, 130, 139, 141, 

 142, 244 



Bison-tracking on foot, 5, 53, 211 



— " treed " by a, 63 

 Black buck, 152, 162 



— snares for, 246 



— stalking, 163 



— wonderful jumping powers of, 

 163, 167 



Blue bull, 16, 152 



Boar, wild, 16, 53, 105, 106-110 



156, 183, 247 

 Bombax malabaricum, 88 

 Bos gaunts, 4 

 Brahminy duck, 10 1 

 Buffalo, 79, 98, 129 



— pursued by a tame, 98 

 Bull, death of the, 14 

 Burma disarmed, 128 



Camp, the shooting, 217 



Canis aureus, 16 



Casarca rutila, 10 1 



Cat, wild, 179, 203 



Catchment areas and their protec- 

 tion, 140 



Cattle-lifter, the, 19 



Central Provinces, description of 

 country, y; 



opening out of, 79 



the hot weather in, 86 



Cervulus muntjac, 16 



Cervus axis, 16 



— duvauceli, 1 79 



— Eldi, 128 



— • porcinus, 1 79 



— unicolor, 16 

 Chinkara, 141 



Chital, 16, 87, 154, 159, 184, 194, 



244 

 Chittagong and climate, 97 

 ■ — • shoots, 105 

 Chittagong District, description of j 



97 



game of, 98, 103, 104, 127 



mode of travelling, 100 



Chittagong Hill Tracts, 97 



forest of, 119, 121 



game of, 99, 103, 1 1 1, 1 16, 127 



Cholera and short rations, 55 



295 



