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INBEX. 



Kingfishers, 21, 22 



Kirboo village, 261 



Kite (Brahminy), habits of, 48 



Koel, or black cuckoo, 17 



Koree village, 123 



Kotela, village of, 147 



Koteree, a beautiful spot, 50 



Kraa, local name of tare goat, 214 



Kubukden or snow-pheasant, 181 



Kuoh, name for hourlar, 138 



KuUer Kahar, 136 ; salt-mines at, 137 ; 



lake, 152 

 Kunker, what it is, 131 

 Kurrachee in 1849, 32 ; position of, 33 

 Kussor, ancient city,. 121 

 Kussoulee, hUl station, 61, 72 



Ladakh, a rainless country, 217, 260 ; 

 goats supply wool for Cashmere 

 shawls, 234 ; merchants on their way 

 to Cashmere, 257 ; birds of, 261 



Lady's-mantle growing in India, 242 



Lagomys hodgsonii and roylii, 280 



Lama temple, Shergol, 264 



Lamastry, visit to, 266 



Lameru (lamastry of), 266 



Lammergeyer, nest of, 74 ; the " roc," 

 of " Arabian Nights," 77 ; marks of, 

 78 ; ancient roostiug-place, 109 



Lang Kartse, village of, 287 



Lanius hardvyicMi, the bay-backed 

 shrike, 12, 144 ; a/renarim, 37 



Lapwing (spur-winged), 120, 132 ; mi- 

 grations of, 128 ; (brown), 154 ; at 

 Peshawur, 317 



Lark (crested calandre), 41, 133 ; of 

 Himalaya, 98 



Larks kept by Cashmere boatmen, 174 



Lark-finch (mountain), 115 ; black- 

 belied, 156 



Larvs trimmicephalus, 283 



Larmiora cyanea, 243 



Leeches in nostrils of dogs, 87 



Leh, the capital of Ladakh, 269 ; mar- 

 ket-place for Cashmere and Yarkund, 

 269 



Leiothrix lutms, 100 



Leopard, 102 ; varieties of, aocordiog 

 to native sportsmen, 106, 107 ; of 

 Punjaub, 144 ; on Cashmere moun- 

 tains, 180 



Leopmrd/us imcia, 287 



Lepers bathe in pools, 44 



Lepia, or snow-pheasant, 181 



Leptocoma zeyUndea, or Ceylon sun- 

 bird, its food, 17 



LepusmgricoUis, 51, 85 ; macroius, 85 ; 

 oiostolm, 280 



Lena nwicola, 298 



LeucosUcte nemorieola, 115 



Lidur, village of, 178 ; torrent of, 186 ; 

 river crossed, log-bridge destroyed, SOl 



Lifeboats and buoys, where wanted, 6 



Life of Englishmen in India, influence 

 of, on their character as rulers, 10 



Light necessary to animal life, 3l2 



LikuT village, 268 



Lilac in blossom, 198 



Lily (tiger), 160, 167 



lA/noia t/revvrosins, 284 



Lions not met with in North-Westem 

 Provinces, 60 



Lizard in stomach of teesa falcon, 18 ; 

 preying on scorpions, 19 ; (blunt- 

 headed), 156 



LoHvcmeUus goensis, 132 



Locusts, food of Coromandel courier, 40 



Lodoicea seycJielltwwm, palm-tree pecu- 

 liar to Seychelles, 8 



Longfellow, on flight of vultures, quoted, 

 76 



Lont, name of male monal pheasant, 90 



Loodiana, landscape near, 60 



Lophophorus vmpeyarms, 88, 89 



Lotus-leaves, 175 



Lungoor monkey, 107 



Macacus rhesus, 108 



Mackeson (Col), assassination of, 315 



Magpie (Tibetan), a variety of common 



one, 262 

 Mahe (Seychelle Islands), coral reef and 



granite of, 8 

 Malacocirctis caudatus, 38, 133 ; mal- 



colmi, 38 

 Malta, fossils in rock-flssures, how they 



may have been deposited, 312 

 Malony, a soldier drowned, 31 

 Man-of-war bird, its aquiline flight, 8 

 Manasa Bui lake, with remains of 



palace on it, 249 

 Mango, peculiar flavour of, 26 

 Mangur, a wild cat, 20 

 Marching in India, advantages of, 118 

 M-arigold (marsh), 175 

 Markhore, pursuit of, 211 ; fine speci- 

 men shot, 212; immense horns of, 



316 



