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Gangetic Plain ; Eastern Bengal; Assam, ....

745

Central Table-land; Satpura Range, .

746

Malwa Plateau; Aravalli Range, .

746

Southern Plateau; Anamalai Hills ; Coast-strip, .

747

Ceylon and Burma , ........

747 »

748

Observatory Stations, ........

749

Temperature; Atmospheric Pressure; Wind , etc.,.

749;

75°

Rainfall Returns, ........

7 S°>

75 i

Sun-spot Cycles, .........

7 S 2 -

753

CHAPTER XXIV.

ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY OF INDIA .

Destruction of Life by Wild Animals, .....

754

Mammals of India ; Lion ; Tiger ; Leopard, ....

754 -

- 75 6

Wolf; Fox; Jackal; Dog ; Hyena , . . . .

756,

757

Bear; Elephant; Rhinoceros ; Wild Hog , ....

757 -

-759

Sheep and Goats ; Antelopes ; Nilgai; Deer ,

759.

760

Bison and Buffalo, ........

760,

761

Ornithology ; Birds of Prey and Game Birds,

761,

762

Reptiles; Loss of Life from Snake-bite; the ‘ Cobra,’

.762

763

Fishes; Insects ; Locusts, .......

7 6 3 -

- 7 6 5

Indian Flora in Various Provinces, .....

765-

-767

CHAPTER XXV.

VITAL STATISTICS OF INDIA .

Sources of Health Returns; their Untrustworthiness,

768,

769

Death-rate in India , ........

769

General Death-rate for all India , ......

77 °

Statistics of Principal Causes of Death,.....

77 °,

771

Death-rate and Birth-rate, arrived at by Actuarial Calculations

on the Basis of the Age-returns in the Census Reports of

1881 and 1891,.. .

77i