200 NATURAL HISTORY. 



Caught three chicks just out of shell ; no nest; fragments of shell on 

 a flat bit of ground amid thin grass. 9th August 1886. — Four fresh 

 eggs. 13th September 1886. — Three fresh eggs. All the foregoing 

 from near Bakrol, six miles from Baroda. 



842. Glareola orientalis. -\ 



845bis. Ch. pluvialis. > Not in Butler, vide Murray, op. cit. 



847. H K ventralis. ) 



843. Glareola lactea (Tem.). — The Lesser Swallow Plover not in. 

 Butler's list, though common in the sandy, rocky bed of the Mahi above 

 Wasad. I got 18 eggs in the bed of the Mahi above Sihora, 6th April 

 1886. There were no nests, and the eggs were either single or 

 in pairs on islands. Some were far in under the ledges of rock ; 

 others right out on the gravel ; and the sheltered eggs were far 

 finer coloured than the exposed ones. 



900 Parra indica (Lath.). — Butler says u permanent resident,, 

 i" believe.'''' It breeds commonly about Baroda, laying its eggs on 

 the floating lotus leaves. People in India generally call this bird 

 a Jacana, pronounced Jakana; but the name is spelt Jacana in Coues's 

 Birds of North America, and that indicates the correct pronunciation, 

 I believe, though Ogilvy's dictionary pronounces it as Jakana, 



924£/s. Not in Butler, vide Murray, p. 270. 



932 1 . Ardelta Jlavicollis (Lath.). — Only recorded from Sind by 

 Major Butler ; but Mr. Doig got it near Ahmedabad ; and I saw 

 a pair near Baroda, May 1884, but as I was waiting for a Panther 

 (that never came), I did not secure a specimen. 



850. JEgialitis minuta (Palls.). — To the instances recorded by 

 Major Butler I may add that I have frequently shot it along the Mahi 

 and found two nests, three eggs each, last April 6-th, at Sihora. On: 

 the Mahi south of Dakore on the same day I found three nests, two. 

 eggs each, of JEsacus recurvirostris along the river-bed, thus 

 justifying Butler's remark of this species, (858) " permanent, 

 resident, 7" believe.'''' 



NOTE ON A RECENT PAPER BY DR. BONAVIA 



ON THE MANGO. 



By Surgeon K. R. Kirtikar, I. M. D., 



Acting Professor of Anatomy, Grant Medical College, Bombay. 



Under the presumption that he was presented with real Bombay 

 mangoes* Dr. Bonavia without reserve declares that they were 



