_Khamsin_, _leveche_, _leste_, _levanter_, _pampero_, _zonda_, _papagayo_, _buran_, _purga_, _brickfielder_, _southerly burster_, _williwaw_, _willy-willy_, _pontias_, _vésine_, _solore_, _joran_, _morget_, _rebat_, _vaudaire_, _breva_, _tivano_, _ora_, _Wisperwind_, _Erlerwind_, _Rotenturmwind_, _vent du Mont Blanc_, _vent d’aloup_, _autan_, _tramontana_, _gregale_, _imbat_, _kite and junk winds_, _bad-i-sad-o-bist roz_ (the furious “wind of 120 days” of Persia and Afghanistan). The present writer has collected several hundred local wind names--and is constantly adding to the list. There are several other types of wind peculiar to mountains besides the alternating mountain and valley breezes. Most of these are descending winds, or “fall winds,” which may blow by day as well as by night. Thus a strong daytime wind sometimes blows down from lofty snowfields and glaciers. A _foehn_ (pronounced like “fern,” but without the _r_) is a wind that has been robbed of most of its moisture through precipitation on the windward slope of mountains and which is further dried, and also strongly heated by compression, in descending the leeward slope. Winds of this type are common in the Alps, where they were first described and named, and their heat and aridity led to the belief that they came by way of the upper atmosphere from the distant deserts of Africa. Now that their origin is better understood, we find that foehns prevail in many other mountainous countries throughout the world, including the western United States, where they are called _chinooks_. When the foehn blows in winter, it causes snow to disappear with amazing rapidity--not only melting it, but speedily drying the ground--whence it has earned the name of “snow eater” in America, and “_Schneefresser_,” which means the same thing and a little more, in Switzerland. The _bora_ of the Adriatic and the _mistral_ of southern France are winds that blow from a cold, mountainous interior down to a warm coastal region, where they arrive as relatively cold winds, in spite of the dynamic heating they have undergone in their descent. The bora is sometimes moderate (_borina_) and at other times a tremendous gale (_boraccia_), while the mistral has been known to blow a railway train from the track in the valley of the Rhône. The _blizzard_ is a wind of which Americans once thought they had almost a monopoly until Sir Douglas Mawson located the “home of the blizzard” on the shores of the Antarctic continent. The true blizzard, whether American or Antarctic, is a violent, intensely cold wind, heavily charged with snow. Such winds are a characteristic feature of the winter climate of our Middle Western States. Although the name of this wind first became current as recently as the seventies of the last century, nobody knows its origin. Nowadays the name is often loosely applied to big snowstorms that are not really blizzardlike.