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Birds of Kohat and Kurram. 
local militia, who had been, on leave to his village, that we 
had left Peiwar just in time. Had we remained another 
night, we were, like the Babes in the Wood, to have been 
foully murdered. All arrangements had been made, assassins 
hired, and our pleasant little camp was to have been converted 
into a shambles ! This was a most amusing yarn which 
tickled us immensely! Gladly would we have accepted 
these small risks if only we had been allowed to continue 
our expedition. 
Text-fig. 5. 
Zeran Nullah, Safed Koh, from 8000 ft. alt. 
A glance at the accompanying map (Plate III.) will give 
a good idea of the geography of this portion of the N.W. 
Frontier of India. Situated between the 32nd and 35th 
parallels of latitude and the 69th and 72nd meridians of 
longitude it is in shape somewhat like a pipe, the District 
of Kohat forming the bowl and the Kurram Valley the stem 
and mouthpiece. Its northern boundary, proceeding from 
east to west, consists of the bare and rocky hills lying 
between it and the Peshawar District, the Samana Range 
