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KAFFIRSTAN. 



The bird is not uncommon, being found on all the hills about 

 here, and apparently at no great elevations. 



1 6th. — The Ungoor, Ficus cordifolia is the first tree that buds. The 

 Platanus, Thagur ; Morus coming into flower, vegetation being very- 

 rapid. 



A captive fox brought in, a fine and a handsome animal, with 

 greyish fur inclining to fuscous on the back, and with blackish points 

 at the back of ears, which are large, and dark- brown ; eyes light 

 yellowish-brown. 



Measured as follows from shoulder to base of tail, 1 feet 3 inches. 



„ ,, to tip of nose 1 „ 

 Height at shoulder, . . .. ... .. 1 ,, 4 „ 



at loins, 1 „ 6J „ 



Total length, .. .. .. ... 3 ,, 8 ,, 



Length of tail, .. ... .. .. 1 ,, 7 ,, 



There is also a nocturnal beast here which has a voice something 

 like a jackal, but more of a bark. Shot one of the small grey, white- 

 rumped water robins, which was examining a wall for insects, and 

 fluttering about the holes in it. I saw two Carbos (cormorants), 

 distinct from any I had hitherto seen, very black, with some white 

 marks. The common black one also occurs. 



\1th. — Proceeded to Chugur Pair; the time occupied by the jour- 

 ney, excluding stoppages, was two hours and four minutes, at the rate 

 of three and a quarter miles an hour. 



Tulipa in abundance in fields, a beautiful species, external sepals 

 rosy outside, odour faint but sweet. 



On a ridge near Chugur Pair is a curious ruin, viz. a long 

 wall. 



The mountain is too high to enable me to say what it is like. 

 The tulip has a tendency to produce double flowers : one specimen 

 seen with a regular three-leaved perianth, eight stamina, and four 

 carpellary ovary, angles opposite the outer perianth leaves ; the upper 

 leaf or bract has a tendency to become petaloid. If the anthers are 

 pulled, the filaments are separated from them and remain as subulate 

 white pointed processes. 



19M. — Labiata, Ocymoidea, Salvia! erect, ramose, foliis rugosis, 

 verticillatis ; spicatis racemosis. Cal. bilabiata supra planisculis, 

 medio carinatus, Cor. pallida, cserulea, bilabiata, labio superiora 

 subfornicata : lateralibus subrevolutis. See Catalogue No. 52, in 

 fields Chugur Pair, common on grassy banks. 



