Index 



Bear, Indian, 278 



I see my first, 294 



period of gestation and num- 

 ber of young ones, 282 



size of, 282 

 Beat, how to, 19 



Beating in Northern India 



jungles, 1 8 

 Bees, 1 6 



Beetles, curious desert, 203 

 Bishu, the bison tracker, 107, 



no, 117, 120, 123 

 Bison, 1 01, 104 

 -a herd of, 123, 133 



- bull, 102, 122, 134, 151, 170 

 size of horns, 105 



- death of the bull, 160 



distribution of, 104 



first experiences with, 107 



follow a wounded, 125 



- gestation of, 105 



- habits of, 104, 105 



herd charges, The, 146 



in Malabar, 136 



kill my first, 134 



my tussle with the bull, 151 



saw my first bull, 119 



tracking, no, in 



Black buck, 4, 14, 86, 174, 176, 



i93> '95 



- and doe at play, 179 

 and elephants, 14, 182 



- beauty of, 177 



colour, size of heads, 

 weight of, 177 

 horned females, 99, 177 



Black buck, methods of shoot- 

 ing, 1 80 



- stalking, 181 

 Blue bull, 4, 21, 183 

 Boar, wild, 9, 23, 114 

 Bos gaurus, 104 

 Bustard, Greater, 203 

 Butea frondosa^ 187 



Cam's aureus, 297 

 Central Provinces bison coun- 

 try, 112 



- country, 187 

 Cet'vis axis, 4 



dwaucclU) 4 



porcinus, 4, 7 5 



unicolor^ 4 

 Cervulus muntjac^ 4, 79 

 Chinkara, 193, 195 



- colour, distribution and 

 food, 196 



horns of, 196 



- stalking, 197 



Chitul, 4, 9, 11, 20, 21, 25, 31, 

 32, 44, 89, 243 



- size of horns and weight of, 

 46,48 



- stag, 44, 46, 48, 49, 51 

 ChotaNagpur bison country, 112 

 Close seasons, 46 

 Cross-bill, 17, 21 



Cyon dukhunensiS) 297 



Dalbergia Sissoo, 5 



Desert scenery, fascination of, 



201 



Dhak tree, 187 



304 



