68 PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 



Ethiopian relations exhibited by a large portion of the 

 fauna of British India do not arise solely from the exten- 

 sion of the desert types to the sandy plains of North- 

 Western Hindustan, the Punjab, and Sind. 



In a ramble next morning I found a small boss of 

 granite exposed in the bed of the stream just above Dolo, 

 It is of small size, extending apparently only a few yards ; 

 and as no sandstone occurs, it is evident that the limestone, 

 here at least, rests immediately on metamorphic rocks. 

 Above and below the stream has cut its way through lime- 

 stone, forming deep glens with cliffs at each side. In the 

 bushes beside the stream I shot a coucal or crow-pheasant 

 {Centropus monachus), and St. John kUled a rail 

 {Rallus Rougeti). We made the march to the next 

 camping-ground, Haikhallat, near Chelikot, together. It 

 was over undulating limestone country, similar to that 

 already traversed. Harriers {Circus cineraceus and C. 

 Swainsoni) abounded, much as in the Deccan in India, 

 but they were even more numerous. I was desirous 

 to procure more specimens of Otis melanogaster, and 

 we beat several patches of bush without success, but 

 we started two reddish antelopes, one of which we 

 succeeded in rolling over. It was a buck of the Scopo- 

 pTiorus montanus of EtippeU, with short straight horns. 

 Another bush antelope, which we also saw this day and 

 of which I afterwards killed specimens, was Cephalophus 

 madoqua of the same naturalist, a mouse-coloured auimal 

 about the size of a gazelle, or rather smaller. 



On the limestone there were a few land-shells. A 

 anail closelv allied to the common PSontb "Rnrn-npan TJplix 



