The Lophophorus is called Moorghi Zureem, it is a very gorgeously coloured bird, but of heavy make; the tail is always carried erect.  Length of body two feet one inch; the girth of the body at the shoulder including wings, seventeen to eighteen inches.  Length of neck from commencement of the crest to the base of the under mandible, five to six inches.

The bird is not uncommon, being found on all the hills about here, and apparently 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 primarily affected.