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quince, peach, apricot, cherry, filbert, bramble, 

 red and black currant, raspberry, strawberry, with 

 groves of box, laurel, myrtle, white and purple 

 magnolia, camelia, rhododendrons with blossoms 

 of every shade from white and bright yellow to 

 dark purple, fuchsias, geraniums, woodbine, honey- 

 suckles, peppers, dog-rose, ivy, violets, primroses, 

 anemone, cowslips, and mosses and lichens as in 

 England. Here, in addition to many of the animals 

 of the tropical belt, we find several species never to 

 be met with in the plains, viz., the brown and 

 yellow bear, the yellow solitary wolf, the gooral, or 

 Himalayan chamois, the jerow, or hill stag, the 

 thaar, or wild sheep,' the surrow, or goat antelope, 

 the eagle, the moonal, or blue pheasant, the koklas, 

 or mottled pheasant, the peura, or hill partridge, 

 the Himalayan grouse, the woodcock, thrush, 

 blackbird, cuckoo, goldfinch, chaffinch, mountain 

 sparrow, flying squirrel, otter, marten, pine cat, 

 lungoor, or black-faced gray-bearded monkey, 

 black hill-monkey, boa, and gigantic damium, or 

 rock-snake. At an elevation of about nine thou- 

 sand feet we get to a third zone, and, with the 



