NATURALIST IN INDIA. 20*7 



procured in tlie Cashmere mountains : it is considered by 

 natives to be somewhat common. The heron is a tenant of 

 the parent streams of the Jhelum. From the hamlets of Hungi- 

 poor, in one of the valleys at the southern end of Cashmere, 

 we witnessed a thunder-storm, which, for awful grandeur, I 

 have seldom seen surpassed. The lightning shot in tremen- 

 dous zig-zags across the mountain-tops. One bolt struck a 

 pinnacle of rock, and remained a globe of fire for upwards of 

 two minutes. Such meteoric phenomena are said not to be 

 uncommon during Himalayan thimder-storms. 



