8701 



592 



FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR. 



Taiga region in Siberia, 129, 572. 



Tarpan of the Dnieper steppes, 115, 571. 



Tcliukutchak stormed by the Dungani 

 tribe, 401. 



Termite or white ant in Africa, 181, 574. 



Tiger, hunting of the, 157. 



Titmouse, the penduline, 563, 586. 



Tinmen, town of, 395. 



Tragopan, wooing of the, 267. 



Tshum or hut of the Ostiaks, 410, 423. 



Tundra of the Polar region, described, 

 63, 566; its lakes, 67; vegetation, 68; 

 prehistoric animals embedded in its 

 ice-crust, 72, 567 ; fauna of the tundra, 

 72; characteristic birds, 77; the mos- 

 quito, 81; autumn and winter in the 

 tundra, 85; an unhappy expedition 

 to one, 411. 



Umber-bird, the, 220, 576. 

 Ustkamenegorsk, school in, 494. 



Vodki in Siberia, 524. 

 Voles, migrations of the, 253. 

 Vulture, the crested black, 559. 



Wady Haifa, on the Nile, 357, 362, 



387, 390. 



Wallace, Alfred Russel, xxiv. 

 "Whale, systematic migrations of the, 



248. 

 Wild sheep hunting on the Arkat 



Mountains, 488. 



Willows (sallows) of the tundra, 69. 

 Wolf, 93, 151, 152, 486, 488, 564. 

 Wood -ibis, song of the, 216. 



Yamaul, messenger of the gods, 446, 



447. 

 Yurt or Kirghiz house, 454, 570. 



Zaizan, town of, 403, 494. 

 Zebra, flight of the, 256. 

 Zoology, history of, xv. 



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