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, 18 

 Bees, 16 



Beetles, curious desert, 203 

 Bishu, the bison tracker, 107, 



no, 117, 120, 123 

 Bison, JOT, 104 



— a herd of, 123, 133 



— bull, 102, 122, 134, r5i, 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, 1 36 



— kill my first, r34 



— my tussle with the bull, 1 5 1 



— saw my first bull, 119 



— tracking, no, in 



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



193. 19s 



— • — 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, 180 



• stalking, 181 



Blue bull, 4, 21, 183 

 Boar, wild, 9, 23, 114 

 Bos gaurus, 104 

 Bustard, Greater, 203 

 Butea frohdosa, 187 



Canis aureus, 297 

 Central Provinces bison coun- 

 try, 112 



country, 187 



Cervis axis, 4 



— duvaucelli, 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, n, 20, 21, 25, 31, 

 32, 44, 8g, 243 



— size of horns and weight of, 

 46,48 



— stag, 44, 46, 48, 49, 51 

 ChotaNagpur bison country, 1 1 2 

 Close seasons, 46 

 Cross-bill, 17, 21 



Cyon dukhune?isis, 297 



Dalbergia Sissoo, 5 



Desert scenery, fascination of, 



201 

 Dhak tree, 187 



304 



