INDEX. 



325 



Hog-iat in houses, 20 



Honey obtained bjrfrighteningtlie tiees,88 



Honey-sucker (purple), at Poonah, 17, 



144 ; (red), 104 

 Hooded crow, 127 



Hoopoe, 24, 219 ; digging into turf, 196 

 Horses frightened by trains of ants, 27 

 Houbara bustard, hunting of, 51, 52 

 Houbara macqneenii, 51 

 Houriar, 138; wounded ram, 145; 



feeds at night, 148 ; young killed by 



pleuio-pneumonia, 151 

 House-martin of Southern India same as 



European, 100 

 Humble-bees, 198 

 Humboldt, writing^ of, cause of their 



zest, 4 

 Hummok river, 125 

 Hunting-grounds of Amirs of Soinde, 47 

 Huri PuTbert, 243 

 Hurricane, severe one, 73 

 Hurri-Sing-Ka-Bagh, 244 

 Hyacinth in flower, 160 

 Hyaena carries off poultry and dogs, 102 ; 



habits of, 308 ; larger on Himalayas, 



308 

 Hycena striata, 40 

 Hydaspes river, 247 

 Hyderabad, high temperature at, 50 

 Syelaphus pordnus, 51 

 Hystrko leucv/ms, 137 



Ibex, 229 ; habits of, 234, 285 ; (Cau- 

 casian), its home and habits, 36 ; in 

 Ladakh, 286 



IWdorJvyndms stiruthersii, 293 



Ibis (blaclc), 129 



Ichneumon (gray), 120 



Indolence and inactivity, their bad 

 effects in a tropical climate, 10. 



Indus, pleasures of a voyage up, 46 ; 

 shiftingof channel, 47 ; under-current, 

 not likely to be one, 47 ; sunset on, 

 48 ; tributaries of, 132 ; its breadth 

 at Kelatse, 268 ; liansport of baggage 

 across, 313 



Inscriptions on slate-slabs in Ladakh, 266 



Insect larvse on Tibetan antelope, 279 



Insect pests on march, 59 



Inundation of Indus, 46 ; of streams 

 about Poonah, 16 



Irena pueUa, 41 



Iris longifolia and I. nipaUnsis, 196 



Irrigation by Persian wheels, 47 



Iron vein, 203 



Islamabad, 200 ; dirtiness of, 201 



Jaoana (Chinese) 175 



Jackal and its cry, 40, 41 ; where met 

 with, 102 ; habits of, 308 ; larger on 

 Himalayas, 308 



Jackdaw (Indian), a bold marauder, 12 

 following ship, 45; habits of, 46 

 (European), 127 ; (gray-headed), 221 

 at Peshawur, 317 



Jacko, highest point at sanatorium of 

 Simla, so called from abundance of 

 monkeys there, 107 



Jamrood village, 316 



Jari deer, 189 



Jarrow deer, 190 



Jay (Vigors' and red-billed), 83 ; (long- 

 tailed), 85; (European) shot in Af- 

 ghanistan, 86 ; (black-throated), 86 ; 

 (yeUow-billed), 169 



Jehangire used baths at Atsibul, 201 ; 

 tablet of, 203 



Jer monal or snow-pheasant, 181 



Jewar or black-headed pheasant, 216 



Jhelum, valley of, 160 



Jowaree, a kind of grain, 27 



Jugla, name of tare, 214 



Jumnootri range, 64 



Jungle-fowl, 84 



Kail or ibex, 233 



Kakur or barking-deer, 70 



Kalij pheasant, 67 ; piping call of, 83 ; 

 habits of, 92, 93 



Kalka, 61 



Kandala, scene at, 30, 31 



Kannibal, 244 



Kargil fort, 263 



Karstee mountain, 263 



Kartse, a lofty peak, 291 



Kelatse village, 268 



Kestrel, habits of, 21 ; at Dugshai, 99 



Eetupa ceylonensis, 114 



Khuds or broad valleys, 63 



Khund village, 256 



Khyber Pass, entrance visible from Pe- 

 shawur, 316 



Kiang or wild ass, 275 



Kilas, a peak of Himalaya, 64 



King-crow on backs of cattle, 25 ; (black 

 Indian), 153 



Kingfisher (Bengal) on Indus, 48 ; 

 (black-headed, 86 



