APPENDIX III

I had hoped to have given, through the kindness of Colonel Ward, a full list of the birds of Kashmir.  Up to the time of going to press, however, the complete list has not been made out.  A very large proportion, however, has been published in the Journal of the Bombay Nat.  Hist.  Society.  I would refer those desirous of a knowledge of the birds of Kashmir to the above Journal for 23rd April and 20th Sept. 1906, and 15th Feb. 1907.  Also to Hume and Henderson’s Lahore to Yarkand, and to Le Mesurier’s Game, Shore, and Water Birds of India, to which I am indebted for the following:—­

“In Kashmir, out of 116 genera of land birds, 34 have a wide range, 32 are characteristic of the Palar Arctic, 29 of the Indian, and 21 of the Himalo-Chinese sub-region.  Only one species is peculiar to Kashmir, a very normal bullfinch (pyrula).”

The flora, which is most interesting, has yet (as far as I know) to be treated independently of the neighbouring regions.  Royle is scientific but antiquated, and I know of no better list than that given by Lawrence in his Valley of Kashmir.

APPENDIX IV

It may interest any one intending a trip to Kashmir to see a note of reasonable expenses as incurred by two people during a nine-month absence from England.  Therefore I append a precis of ours.

It is to be remembered that a saving might be effected in many particulars by any one knowing something of the country.  We had to buy our experience.  Fully L10 or L12 could be saved in wages, as at first we had a fighting tail like “Ta Phairson” of “four-and-twenty men and five-and-thirty pipers”—­and pipers have to be paid!  We also hired tents when we did not really require them.  Against these outgoings, however, it should be borne in mind that, thanks to the kindness of friends, we paid a merely nominal rent for a “State” hut at Gulmarg.  At Abbotabad, Jaipur, and Udaipur, also, we had no hotel bills to meet.

PRECIS OF EXPENSES—­TWO PERSONS

LONDON TO KARACHI (25 Days)
                                                   L s. d.  L s. d. 
Half-Return fares, 1st class, London to Trieste,
  and thence by Austrian Lloyd (unaccelerated) 60 0 0
Hotels, sleeping-car, gratuities, wine bills, &c. 16 15 0
Baggage expenses 8 15 7
          
                                        ---------- 85 10 7

BOMBAY TO LONDON (25 Days)
Share of fares 60 0 0
Hotel expenses and sundries, as before 10 6 8
Baggage expenses, dock dues, &c. 17 11 4
          
                                        ---------- 87 18 0