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BHARAWUL POWER OF INSECTS. 



occupies, little soil is to be found ; the Baloot, and Zaitoon, are con- 

 fined to sheltered places. Above they occur indiscriminately on all 

 faces, but Zaitoon is rare at such elevations ; few birds were observed, 

 the most common about Bharawul are an Emberizoid and a Certhia ? 

 Muscicapa flammea was seen at 7,000 feet in pine forests with several 

 Sittse : in these forests and about Bharawul, only one Garrulus was 

 heard, and few woodpigeons were seen. The Picus is still com- 

 mon, Myophorus now extends up to Bharawul. Parus casruleus still 

 continues. Another female Nernorrhasdus is brought in with young : 

 the breeding time probably takes place two months later. The Merula 

 before found below, now occurs in flocks about Bharawul. 



According to the natives there is only about twenty days dif- 

 ference in the seasons of cutting wheat and barley ; this is probably 

 not true, yet it is borne out by the Tulip, Cytisus and Hyacinth. 



The village has been founded five years since, and contains 180 

 souls. The burial ground contains sixteen graves, which will give the 

 annual percentage of mortality. At Otipore the mortality is said to be 

 great. Whence do these people get their curious grey eyes, and 

 light hair ? 



Daphne extends to Bharawul. 



\4th. — The kingcrow is now in here, also Columba, and Lanius ; 

 this last has an unceasing jarring chirp, it has however considerable 

 powers of voice. 



Sitta feeds on seeds as well as on insects, but the structure of its 

 stomach is insectivorous. 



The female Monaul died yesterday. I heard some of these birds 

 in the pine forests of Bharawul, their voice being very loud and 

 grating ; the female was a good tempered bird, capable of attachment, 

 when caressed its notes were pleasing. 



15^. — The Hoopoe seen ; another fish brought in to-day, the usual 

 mountainous form, but with a very rough nose. 



The Edolius is here the earliest and the latest daily bird. I 

 observed several to-day on a tree making a great noise with their 

 harsh chirp, at each chirp the tail was for the instant jerked out like 

 a fan. 



17/^. — A single parrot seen flying overhead. 



\9th. — What is the bodily strength of man to that of insects ! I 

 have just been watching an ant dragging the body of a hornet, many 

 times larger than itself, up a door with the greatest ease ; so much 

 so, that after dragging it up three feet, it came down to alter its posi- 



