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of the deer, together with the gracefully-formed limbs and 

 fleetness of that animal. The hair is thick, and approaches 

 nearer to the wool of sheep than the pleage of deer. The bay- 

 hacked shrike {Lanius hardrvicJcii) was plentiful in bushy 

 .places, and flaunting in numbers among the yellow flowers of 

 the acacia ; the pretty little purple honey-sucker (Nectarinia 

 mahrattensis) was often seen in pairs, now commencing to 

 build their nests, the soft songs of the males sounding 

 sweetly. Surrounded by gnarled acacias, grass, and rubbish, 

 were frecLuently noticed ruined buildings, evidently of ancient 

 date. Graveyards were seen often, but mostly in secluded 

 and out-of-the-way places, showing that large parts of the 

 district now unfrequented had at one time been densely popxi- 

 lated. One of these buUdings, more entire than the rest, is to 

 be seen near the village of Jubba ; it is quadrangular in 

 shape, low and flat-roofed, with a small, narrow, and arched 

 doorway, not four feet in height, opening into separate com- 

 partments on each side of the square ; these are generally 

 occupied by itinerant fakirs. The graves appear to differ 

 from those of the present race in having a club-shaped erect 

 stone at the head, and one rough and unhewn at the feet, 

 and sometimes another in the middle. The style of architec- 

 ture and antiquated appearance of these remains speak of a 

 far-back period in the history of the Punjaub. A native 

 hunter who accompanied me stated that he had often seen 

 tigers, leopards,* the hyena, wolf, and a few black buck, 

 besides an occasional black heart {Helarctos tibetanus), which 



* I have only seen one species of leopard in the Punjaub, and that was 

 killed close to the Himalayas ; it was the true Felis leopwrdus of Temminck 

 (Monogr. i. p. 92). 



+ See A. L. Adams, Proc. Zool, Soc. for 1858. A variety of this species is 

 said to frequent the lower Himalayas near the plains. 



