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A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

Chapter 24: APPENDIX III
By T. R. Swinburne
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A travel memoir recounts an extended journey through Kashmir and parts of northern India, combining day-by-day journal entries with on-the-spot sketches and colored illustrations. The narrative moves from the voyage out and rail and road routes to camps and high margs, describing climate, seasons, luggage and clothing advice, and the practicalities of camping and local services. Vivid landscape passages portray lakes, valleys, mountain tarns, floods and hill resorts, while frequent observations of native boats, by‑ways and social life give texture to excursions to cities and historic sites. The tone alternates between practical guidance and personal impression, offering both a handbook for travel and a picturesque record of places visited.

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.