Part 58

Squirrels, migrations of, 253.

Steppe, origin and usage of the term, 87, 174.

Steppe-fires, 397.

Steppes, characteristics of the Asiatic, 87; their scenery, 89; vegetation, 91, 568; beauty of the flowers in spring, 95; animal life in the steppes, 97, 109, 115; insects and reptiles, 107; the giant wild sheep, 110; the kulan or wild horse, 115; a kulan hunt and capture of a foal, 119.

Steppes of Inner Africa, 168; sketch of their seasons, 169; miseries of the winter, 170; spring heralded by terrible storm and rain, 171; definition of the African steppe, 174; inhospitable character of the region, 175; its vegetation, 176; difficulties of travelling, 177; a night’s experience in camp, 177; fauna of the country, 182; the bird-fauna, 187; mammals, 193; stampede and destruction of animal life caused by the steppe-fire, 198.

Stone-seas in the Nile, 367.

Storks, stories regarding, 276, 277, 278, 281.

Swallow, courting of the, 266.

Swärtholm brooding-place, 60, 62.

Syene, or Sun, on the Nile, 359, 584.

Taiga region in Siberia, 129, 572.

Tarpan of the Dnieper steppes, 115, 571.

Tchukutchak stormed by the Dungani tribe, 401.

Termite or white ant in Africa, 181, 574.

Tiger, hunting of the, 157.

Titmouse, the penduline, 563, 586.

Tiumen, town of, 395.

Tragopan, wooing of the, 267.

Tshum or hut of the Ostiaks, 410, 423.

Tundra of the Polar region, described, 63, 566; its lakes, 67; vegetation, 68; prehistoric animals embedded in its ice-crust, 72, 567; fauna of the tundra, 72; characteristic birds, 77; the mosquito, 81; autumn and winter in the tundra, 85; an unhappy expedition to one, 411.

Umber-bird, the, 220, 576.

Ustkamenegorsk, school in, 494.

Vodki in Siberia, 524.

Voles, migrations of the, 253.

Vulture, the crested black, 559.

Wady Halfa, on the Nile, 357, 362, 387, 390.

Wallace, Alfred Russel, xxiv.

Whale, systematic migrations of the, 248.