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Item Affirmation of Cultural Admixture in Hunting Badger(Central Department of English, 2016) Singh, Kuber BahadurHillerman’sHunting Badgerforegrounds the narrator’s search for hybrid identity. He is fond of getting exposed to both the white people’s culture and the indigenous culture of Navajo people. Though he occasionally encounters various prejudices, aggressions, exclusionary practices, he is finally happy to live in the world of new things where he partly gets the chance to change himself and partly an opportunity to make a return to Navajo community. He is opposed to the isolationist practice of Navajo community. Similarly, he is not deterred and discouraged when his professional responsibility compels him to tread on the path of risk and hazard. Leaphorn is also equally oriented towards his native ritual, cults and tradition while undertaking a risky job of chasing and tracking the missing criminals. There is no problem in accepting diversity, difference, multiplicity and heterogeneity in hundreds of Navajo youths like Emma, Teddy and Leaphorn. They are of the opinion that the world has the creative prospect of exploring the unseen advantages of hybrid identity and cultural admixture. But this prospect anticipated by the narrator is dimmer and dimmer in some corners of American society. Hillerman strongly identifies with the Teddy’s in his emphasis on seeking hybrid identity. This research concludes that search for cultural purity and singularity of identity breeds conflicts and antagonism. Hence, accepting the hybrid prospect is a key to softening the voices of conflict and chaos. Cultural admixture is whatall the youths of Navajo should welcome.Item Bird diversity along the elevation gratlient in the Alital area, Dadeldhura, Nepal(Department of Zoology, 2023) Singh, Kuber BahadurNepal supports large number birds and other biota over a wide elevation range. However mid-elevation consists of higher species richness in Nepal. The aim of the study was to explore the avian diversity along elevation gradient in Alital area, Dadeldhura, Nepal. The study was carried out in 16 sampling station ranging from 500 m to 2,000 m elevation above sea level with interval of 100 m each. Fixed point count method in 40 m circular radius was used for bird sampling. Various environmental factors like canopy cover, distance to settlement, distance to water source, distance to agriculture area, distance to road, distance to forest and number of fruiting trees were measured to evaluate their effects on species richness of birds along the elevation gradients. A quadrat of 10 m × 10 m was used for counting trees inside the circular bird counting plot in each elevation gradient. DBH > 1.3 m was considered as tree. Canopy cover was measured by using densiometer. Distances from centre of the circular counting plot to variables; distance to water source, forest, settlement and road were measured in study area map by using QGIS tool. A total of 2,204 individuals of 114 species from 47 families of 14 orders were recorded. The Shannon - Weinner index revealed that the diversified bird population (H’=2.498). The Muscicapidae family had higher abundance than other families. Similarly, species richness was observed with a decreasing trend with increased elevations. Insectivorous bird species were recorded in higher species number with decreasing pattern along the elevation gradient. To observe relationship of different factors like canopy cover, distance to water source, distance to agriculture area, distance to settlement, distance to forest and fruiting trees with species richness, the GLM (Generalized Linear Model) with poisson distribution was used. Species richness showed the significant relationship with distance to a water source, distance to agriculture area. Likewise, insectivorous and carnivorous species richness showed significant relationship with distance to agriculture area. Granivorous species richness had only showed significant relationship with canopy cover, whereas omnivorous and frugivorous species richness had not showed any significant relationship with any of the variables.