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INDEX 



Chota Nagpur, 3 



forest scenery of, 8 



game of, 4, 16 



the jungles of and sport in, 



3-67 

 Civet-cat, 105, 179 

 Commissioner's commissariat goes 



astray, 114 

 Communications, construction of 



and effect on game, 78, 128 

 Coppersmith, the, 156 

 Cormorants, 100 

 Cotton tree, 88 

 Crows, 35, 38, 70, 201 

 Cuon nitilans, 16 

 Curlew, 100 



Dalbergia Sissoo, 152 

 Date-palm groves, 141 

 Deer, habits of, 213 

 Dog, wild, 16, 24, 53, 179, 218 



and distribution of game, 2 1 8 



effect of on wild game, 24 



Duck, snaring of, 254 

 Dun forests, the, 185 



Egret, protection of, 255 

 Elephant, 4, 79,99, 129, 130, 139,141 



— feeding of, 227 



— pitfalls, 242 

 Elephants, a herd of, 144 



— shooting of, 141 

 Encounters between big game 



animals, 214 

 Eucalyptus plantations, 139 

 Eugenia scrub, 27 



Fauna, an interesting, 116 



— economic value of, 282 



— permanent sanctuary for, 288 



— study of the game, 5 1 



Fauna of Bengal Duars and Assam, 



127 

 South Lushai Hills and Hill 



Tracts, 116 

 Faunistic survey, a, 1 17 

 Felis pardus, 16 

 Felis tigris, 16 

 Fires, forest, 92 



— jhumers and forest, 112 

 Fishing Club, the Dehra Dun, 



189 

 Fishing trip, an unsuccessful, 1 1 7 

 Flies, eye, 204 



— horse-, 130, 224 

 Fly-catchers, 156 



" Flying-fox," netting of, 251 

 Forests of Chittagong Hill Tracts, 

 119, 121 



Forests, the voices of the Indian, 



213 

 Forts, old — Central Provinces, 80, 



81 

 Foxes, 179 

 Furlough, back to the jungle from, 



178 



Game, abundance of in Chota 

 Nagpur, 52 



— Act and Rules, inadequacy of 

 in past, 241 



— distribution of, 53 



— distribution of at different sea- 

 sons, 216 



— in the Central Provinces, 81 



— in the Central Provinces in 

 olden days, 78 



— in the United Provinces, 195 



— preservation and shooting rules, 

 87, 259, 271 



— protection and provision of 

 sanctuaries, 239, 256 



— reasons for absence from forests, 

 216 



— sanctuary, the, 264 



— scarcity of in the Dun, 190 

 Gaur, the, 4, 11, 79, 98 

 Gayal, 98 



Gazelle, Indian, 141 

 Gennceus Horsfieldi, 102 



Haiderabad floods of 1908, 140 



" Hal-lal," 161 



Hare, trapping of, 247 



Havildah's story, the, 170 



Himalayan foothills, 1 5 1 



Hogdeer, 179, 183 



Hounds and old boar in a shola, 1 39 



Hyena, 16, 23, 53, 105, 179, 202 



Hyesna striata, 16 



Ibex of Madras, 141 



Insect depredations and effect on 



game distribution, 219 

 Insect life in the grass jungles, 180 



— life in the j ungles, 2 1 9 



Jackal, 16, 23, 155, 179, 202, 250 



Jhuming, 103, 112 



Jungle-carp, 88 



Jungle-fowl, 105, 115, 155, 179, 183 



Jungle lore, 200-226 



Jungles of Assam, 129 



— of Chota Nagpur, 3 



— of Eastern Bengal, 97 



— of Kanara, 141, 142 



— of Malabar, 141, 142 



— of Mysore, 141 



