s. Chamaerops,
_Maizurrye_ used for netting ropes for bedsteads, Viscum of Baloot, used
for food of domestic animals.

Wild goats, sheep, an ass-like animal (_Goomasht_), and a fox which is
handsome, of large size, and common.

_8th_.--Returned.

The _Kafirs_ have a game exactly the same as the English leap-frog,
called by them _Shutruck_. They were very much astonished at my
understanding it. They are miserable marksmen, and were even at small
distances unable to strike a large object, as for instance a hat at
twenty yards, although offered a handsome reward; nor can they shoot at
all at long distances. They are in this respect quite below Khasyas and
Booteas.

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_March 9th_.--Yesterday evening a female of Lophophorus, was brought
in, and a beautiful pheasant, having claret-coloured neck. Body
otherwise fuscous and blackish-brown, having a blackish-green head, white
cheeks and fine transverse crest, as large as a middle-sized fowl.
Apparently a new subgenus of Phasianus.

_11th_.--Swallows have now come in here. They are apparently a different
species from the Pushut kind.

_12th_.--The large-headed lark has also come in, so that there is a
difference of twelve or fourteen days between this part of the country
and Pushut, where it was first seen, although this is only 500 feet
higher, and about thirteen miles farther north.

The universality of the common crow is curious, especially when
contrasted with the circumscribed locality of Jackdaws. The Indian
Jackdaw is never found in hills.

A common plover was brought in yesterday, the wing quills had been taken
out, and its gestures on being liberated were most absurd, and although
originating from fright, were much allied to pride, its head reclining on
its neck, the latter curved, and the feet lifted high into a stately
walk, while the crest was disposed in a most supercilious manner.

I have got into great request here as a physician, entirely I apprehend
owing to the people's faith in _vilayuti daroo_, or English medicine,
especially calomel and cream of tartar, a combination of which has proved
an universal panacea.

Goitre is common here, and the place in the hot months is said to be very
unhealthy, fever and jaundice carry off numbers of people. The Affghans,
strange to say, have no popular medicines, but they are an unintelligent
race in many other points. They are aware of bloodletting, which they
practise m