KAFIR NAMES OF TREES. 



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Celtis, Tanghuh. 

 Cyrtisoid of Bolan, Wooraijoa. 

 Periploca, Burrara, Banduk. 

 Gotoneaster of Tazeen, Khurrowa. 

 Euonymus, Churroghzye. 

 Dodonaea, Wroolarskye. 

 Artemisia, Tuhakar. 

 Rubus, Khusuhurra. 

 The higher ridges are crowned with beautiful pines ; the most 

 common on this side is called Nukhtur, and has not eatable seeds, its 

 timber is in general use — and it is in much vogue for torches. 



The Julghozeh also is met with, but rarely. Abundance of firewood. 

 Ixioides very common, and now in flower, Amygdalus, Budam, also, 

 this is common, and a curious Irideous plant, allied to Crocus ; one 

 Arum likewise occurs. Pigeons very wary, mostly of the green sort 

 with whitish wing-coverts; a pretty small- sized Jay occurs, with a 

 jerking bobtailed flight, a strong-billed Parus, of the climbing sub- 

 genus, Chakors common. 



March 6th. — Rain almost all day. 



7th. — Unsettled weather continues. To-day the kafirs came in with 

 plants of a decided Himalayan nature, a beautiful Iris, the flowers 

 of which are of a deep indigo-blue, a Viburnum, Euonymus, Valeriana, 

 Juniperus, Spiraeacea, Adiantum, Asplenium, Pteris, etc. 



How strangely intelligent all hill people are, and how they are 

 urged by an insatiable love of money. I never expected any thing to 

 be brought in, judging of the kafirs as I have learnt to do of Affghans 

 and Indians, and here they have in one day, without even a lesson, 

 brought in excellent specimens, including mosses, etc. I went out 

 to-day to the end of Meer Alum's territory, this boundary being about 

 one and a quarter miles beyond Shingan. The valley up to this is 

 beautifully cultivated, and begins to look green. Saw and shot 

 another Myophonus, a Saxicola and an Alcedo, the common one of 

 India ; this species has strengthening splints, as it were on both man- 

 dibles : and the feet, etc. have no scales, being very different from 

 those of the generality of birds. 



Myophonus I take to be the large beautiful metallic-blue black- 

 bird, with obscure and elegant white markings. I have observed 

 common to all hills I have seen, and is always found in damp wet 

 places, this bird is very wary, and in carriage much like the English 

 blackbird, on alighting from its short flight, flirting its tail about, 



