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INDEX. 



a, its nest and 



haUts, 22, 23 

 Otis nigrieeps, 24, 52, 317 ; macqmeenii, 



317 

 Otogyps coIams, 80 

 Ounce, and black variety, 287 

 Ovis am/mon, 278 ; two specimens killed, 



289 

 Owl (fish), 114 ; (Himalaya), its food, 



101 ; (Indian), 56 ; (short-eared), 



119 

 Owlet (pigmy), its call and egg, 101 

 Oxeye (yeHow-cheeked), 110 

 OxylophMS melanoleiKOS, 198 

 Oxytropis chiliophyUa, 276 



Pagoda thbush, alluded to by Moore in 

 " Lalla Eookh," 99 



Paharees, natives of Lower Himalaya, 

 65, 66 ; of Narg, 82 ; marriage-party, 

 87 



Palace of Holkar, remains of, at Par- 

 buttah, 14 



Palaeontology of Himalaya, a fine field, 2 



Palceomis torquatus, 15, 16, 49, 67, 

 104 ; cyanooephalm, 67 ; schisticeps, 

 104 



Palm squirrel, 136 



Pampur village, 176 ; fine view near, 

 177 



Pamteel, 119 



Paodreton, temple at, 176 



Panther, one shot, 313 



Pantholops hodgsonii, 278 



Parasitical worms in Indian peregrine 

 falcon, 57 



Parbuttah, view of Poonah from, 13 



Pariah-dog and carcase, 14 ; use of, 23, 

 24, 216, 308 ; sensible of kindness, 

 309 



Parra mumsis, 175, 225 



Parrakeet (rose-ringed), habits of, 15, 16, 

 104 ; (rose-ringed), using nest of 

 sand-martin, 49 ; (slate-headed), fre- 

 quents mountains, 104 ; plumage of, 

 suited to foliage, 67 



Partridge (Cabool, gray and black), 37 ; 

 (black), wide range of, 68 ; shoot- 

 ing of, 69 ; its haunts, 70 ; (gray), 

 69 ; a foul feeder, 70 ; its habits, 71 ; 

 (wood), 110 ; (Tibet), 285 



Partridges, 51 



Parus Hnereus, or gray titmouse, 12 ; 

 dichraus, 110 ; meUmoU^hus, 110 ; 



axtnthogenys, 110 ; eryth/rocephaltis, 



169 

 Passer cinnamomeus, 100 ; domesticws, 



129 ; salicajriMS, 129 

 Pastor (roseate), 24 

 Pasior roseus, havoc it commits on 



grain, 156 

 Pea-fowl, 67, 145; preserved by natives, 



120 

 Pearl-oyster fishery, Kurrachee, 36 

 Peepul, 27 

 Pelicans on coast of Scinde, 45 ; on 



Indus, 48, 49 

 PeUcamus javanicus, 49 

 Pennycuick (death of), 124 

 Perdic/ida asiatica, 85 

 Perdix ponticeriana, 69 ; hodgsonii, 285 

 Pericirocotus peregrinus, 17, 196 ; 6r«- 



mrostris, 113 ; flam-meus, 113 ; rosenis, 



113 ; spaAosus, 113 

 Peshawur, not a good station for natu- 

 ralist, 315 ; quadrupeds and birds at, 



317 

 Petrel, square-tailed and other species, 6 

 Petrodncla cyanea, 100 ; in Malta, 101 



longirostris, a variety of P. cyanea, 



101 

 Peyton (Lieut.), collection of skins and 



heads, made in Nobra, 274 

 Pharaoh's Mouse of Marco Polo, 280 

 Phasianits wallichii, 91 

 Pheasant (kalij), 67, 92 ; (monal), 89, 



110 ; (plach). 111 ; (Sikim homed), 



216; (black-headed or Hastings), 



216 

 Pheasants in Chor forests, 109 

 Philora hamlet, 83 

 Phcenicopterus roseus, 40 

 Pica bactriana, a variety of common 



magpie, 262 ; megaZoptera, 262 

 Picus mahrattensis, 37 ; samdwmus, 37 ; 



sgucmatus, 1 12 ; caMnisi, 142 ; hima- 



layanus, 142 ; majoroides, 142 

 Pie (red-bUled), 67; (red-vented), 86 ; 



(wandering), 86, 136 

 Pig (wild), 148 

 Pigs, ravages of, 166 

 Pig-tails worn by men and women in 



Ladakh, 266 

 Pigs near Peshawiir, 317 - 

 Pigeon (rock), 22; (Asiatic), 51, 136; 



pursued by govind and other kites, 



57; (common rock), 237; (snow or 



imperial rock), 237 ; (Alpine), 283 



