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so, this specimen was ten years’ old. The Tahr, Capra Jemaica, 
is met with throughout the lesser ranges up to the snow. The few 
I have had the luck to kill have been on the confines of forest, in 
difficult stalking-ground, and they are very wary and shy. 
Capt. T. had been exploring some crags on the north side of 
the mountain, and brought in a couple of Choughs, F'ragilus 
graculus, which he found in abundance, but hard to get at, from 
the precipitous nature of the ground. This bird, which has been 
thought by some ornithologists to be distinct from the European 
species and named F’. Himalayanus, is very common in the interior 
at high elevations. Of the other species, Pyrrhocorax alpinus, 
the Yellow-billed Chough, we procured no examples, although it 
ought to have been observed. T. got no game of any sort, and 
only brought in, besides the Choughs, some Grosbeaks and an 
assortment of the more common birds usually met with in pine- 
woods. He reports having seen Ghoral, but did not get a shot 
at them. 
Nakunda, Oct. 14th.—Got to the top of Huttoo this morning, 
but not to see the sun rise, being late in starting. Bitterly cold, 
but the ascent not so hard as we had anticipated. We got toa 
sheltered nook to kindle a fire and boil the kettle, and were well 
repaid for our toil by the magnificence of the mountain panorama 
all around us, far and near; but we did not come entirely to con- 
template scenery. I had been enquiring from Oosrao and others 
about the little so-called ‘‘Mouse Hare,’ Lagomys Roylei, and 
was assured it was to be found on Huttoo. The information was 
verified, and we got five specimens to-day; and my Shikaree 
brought me three others on the morrow. Of all snap shots, in 
my experience this is the most difficult. They disappear almost 
as the trigger is pulled, and we spent almost the entire day 
procuring those five specimens, as after a shot not one would re- 
appear under half an hour or more. I considered myself lucky 
in nailing a couple out of six shots. Capt. T. proved himself a 
better snap-shot, and killed three out of five fired at. This little 
animal, which is (badly) figured in Royle’s ‘Botany &c., of the 
Himalayas,’ is not, I believe, found under 10,000 feet, and lives 
in small communities, among rocks and stones, passing through 
a long winter sleep, like the Marmots, and burrowing far and deep 
in the earth. I tried to get down to their chambers to-day, but 
we had stupidly brought with us no suitable implements for the 
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