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KAFIR FLORA. 



etc. This bird leads me to remark how widely the river chats are 

 distributed. The beautiful white-crowned black and red species, and 

 the grey, with a red tail, are found about all hill streams in the 

 north-eastern parts of India ; the latter is a curious bird, radiating its 

 tail out constantly. Enicurus is also widely distributed. 



I also got to-day a beautiful male Lophophorus, the plumage of 

 which surpasses description ; it is a heavy bird, with brown irides, 

 and a brownish-chesnut tail ; it came from Daiwag. 



I met with five kafirs, when out to-day, only one would come to me ; 

 he was a very tall man, with a savage face, light keen eyes, return- 

 ing from a forage on the Safis : he was an Arunsha man, and a Tor 

 kajir, who are represented as very different from the Espheen or white 

 ones, who are found in the mountains adjacent to Balk, etc. Arunsha 

 is three days journey from this, and has a lame, or one-legged chief, 

 Dheemoo ; my friend's name was Bazaar, he was armed with a match- 

 lock taller than himself, and the usual dagger. How they compete 

 with the Mussulmans I cannot imagine, as they can only fight 

 in close quarters, and for which they have daggers about six inches 

 long in the blade. 



The Kafir names of the plants brought in are as follows : — 



* Praitsoo, Hedera. 

 Akrumah, Iris. 



* Kreemapotak, Melanthium. 

 Daisoo, Urtica urens ? 



* J oh, Laricoides. 

 Wheeree, Ephedroides. 



* Amarr, Rhamnea. 

 Whishtur, Juniperus. 



* Traih, Quercus. 



* Unzoomal, Spiresea. 

 Gutsuttur, Viola. 



of these, those marked with an asterisk have no affinity at all with 

 the Khorassan Flora : nothing can show the change in the Flora of 

 Katoor better than this, that two kafirs bring in one day, without 

 having their attention directed to ferns, as many species as I have 

 obtained in all that part of Khorassan I have visited, amounting to 

 1,000 mile's in different latitudes and at very various elevations. 

 The following are the kafir names for the corresponding words : — 



Darr, Mounatin. Wussut, Goat. 



Trimm, Snow. Wemmi, Doomba sheep. 



