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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVI. 



No. 1. 



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The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part XXV: 

 {With a Plate of Catreus wallichi, the Cheer Pheasant). 

 By E. C. Stuart Baker, f.l.s., f.z.s., m.b.o.u 1 



Summary of the Results from the Indian Mammal 

 Survey of the Bombay Natural History Society. 

 Part II. By R. C. Wroughton, F.z.s. 19 



Scientific Results from the Mammal Survey, No. 

 XVIII. Report on the House Rats of India, 

 Burma and Ceylon. By Martin A. C. Hinton 59 



A Popular Treatise on the Common Indian Snakes. 

 Part XXVI. {With Plate XXVI and Diagram of 

 Cerberus rhynchops and Enhydris curtus.) By Lt.- 

 Col. F. Wall, C.M.G., C.M.Z.S., f.l.s., i.m.s 89 



The Common Butterflies of the Plains of India. Part 



XXI. By T. R. Bell, I.F.S., CLE 98 



Indian Dragonflies. Part III. (With 12 Text-f<jures.) 



By Major F. C. Fraser, i.m.s 141 



Notes on the Birds of Ambala District, Punjab. Part 



II. By H. Whistler, M.B.O.U., F.z.s 172 



The CTPERA.CE.E OF THE BOxMBAY PRESIDENCY. Part II. 



By L. J. Sedgwick, f.l.s., i.c.s 192 



A Revision of the Indian Species of Botala and Amman- 



NiA. Part II. By E. Blatter, S.J., and Prof. F. Hallberg 210 

 The Flora of the Indian Desert. ( Jodhpur and Jaisal- 



mer). Part I. (With 12 Plates.) By E. Blatter, s.j., 



and Prof. F. Hallberg -- 218 



The Birds of Prey of the Punjab. Part I. (With 2 



^yjrimis.) By C. H. Donald, f.z.s 247 



Panthers. By Brig.-General R. G. Burton 266 



The Mesopotamian Bulbul. By Capt. Claude B. Tice- 



hurst, r.a.m.c 279 



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