Part 56

Oases of the desert, 341.

Obdorsk, annual fair at, 440.

Ohrt, the Ostiak god, 421, 443, 448.

Old-World monkeys, 296.

Omsk, town of, 396.

Ornithologist (an) on the Danube, 540; a tempting invitation, 541; scenery on the Danube, 541; a famous heronry, 544; bird-life in the marshes, 546; sea-eagle hunting, 548; fighting and pairing of the birds, 549; care for their young, 552; protection of animal life in Hungary, 554; a grand river picture, 556; a wonderful district, 557; vulture-shooting, 561; a sail through a forest-wilderness, 563.

Ostiaks, the Heathen, 416; condition of the people, 416; probable number of the tribe, 417, 584; contrasted with Ostiaks of the Greek Church, 418; their physical features, 421; language and dress, 422; dwellings, 423; employments, 425; their reindeer and dogs, 426; constant migrations, 431; a “bloody meal”, 434; at night in a tshum, 436; at a fishing-station, 437; hunting for game, 439; the fair of Obdorsk, 440; evils of brandy-drinking, 440; marriage customs, 441; domestic life, 445; performances and prophecies of a shaman, 445; religion of the people, 448; their burial customs, 450.

Ostrich, legend regarding the, 190; habits and omnivorous appetite of, 191, 576; breeding of, 192.

Ox of the Kirghiz, 465.

Oyster-catcher, the, 49.

Pairing-cry of birds, 273.

Pallas’s sand-grouse or steppe-grouse, 115, 404.

Palm-tree of the desert, 342.

Pangolin of North Africa, 194.

Phalarope in the tundra, 80, 568.

Philæ, island of, 361, 584.

Pichta fir of Siberia, 128, 394.

Pine-marten, 158; hunting of the, 161.

Polygamy of some birds, 279.

Primeval Forests of Central Africa, 201; their magnificence in spring-time, 203; sailing up the Blue Nile, 204; a remarkable tribe, 204; the forest reached, 207; difficulty of penetrating it, 208; the baobab-tree and duleb-palm, 209; bird-fauna of the forest, 213; varieties of nests, 217; mammals of the forest, 222; animal life on the river-banks and islands, 225; rain-lakes and water-pools of the forest, 229; visits of the locust, 230; night in the primeval forest, 231.

Ptarmigan of the tundra, 77

Quagga, flight of the, 256; 569.

Ramwood of the Asiatic steppes, 112.

Rat, invasion of the, 235; 578.

Razor-bill or auk, 57, 61.

Reindeer, 76, 150, 240, 578; ravages of disease among, 412, 426, 584.

Roe-deer, hunting of the, 146.

Rouble and kopek, 573.