ly at no great elevations.

_16th_.--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.
Shoulder to tip of nose, 1 feet 0 inches.
Height at shoulder, 1 feet 4 inches.
Height at loins, 1 feet 6.5 inches.
Total length, 3 feet 8 inches.
Length of tail, 1 feet 7 inches.

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.

_17th_.--Proceeded to Chugur Pair; the time occupied by the journey,
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.

_19th_.--Labiata, Ocymoidea, Salvia! erect, ramose, foliis rugosis,
verticillatis; spicatis racemosis. _Cal_. bilabiata supra planisculis,
medio carinatus, _Cor_. pallida, caerulea, bilabiata, labio superiora
subfornicata: lateralibus subrevolutis. See Catalogue No. 52, in fields
Chugur Pair, common on grassy banks.

A curious tendency is observed in Pomaceae, Ceraseae to have the stamina
of the same colour as the petals, thereby _showing their origin_? How
is it explained that in some transformations of this, the anthers alone
are petaliformed, while in others both filament and anther are equally
and pr