CONTENTS OF THISNUMBER. 



PAGE 



List of Members ..« i 



Nesting in Western India. {Continued) {With a Plate.) By 



Lieut. H. E. Barnes, F.Z.S 1 



Notes on a Collection of Butterflies made in the Chin 



Lushai Expedition of 1889-90. By E. Y. Watson 2« 



The Genus Chloropsh. By E. C. S. Baker 59 



A List of the Odoriferous Grasses of India, with a descrip- 

 tion of a New Species of Andropogon. By Mrs. J. C. 



Lisboa 04 



Curious Instance of Abnormal Infloroscence of Cjesalpinia 



(Poinciana) pulcherrima (With a Plate)... 71 



Landscape Gardening in Native States. By G. Carstensen, 



Superintendent, Victoria Gardens, Bombay 72 



List of Birds' Eggs in the Society's Collection on 1st January, 



1891 83 



The Preservation of Insectivorous Birds, Birds of Plumage, 



and Game in the Central Provinces 87 



Reviews of New Books — 



" The Reptilia and Batrachia of India" 100 



" Hume's Indian Oology " ]04 



Miscellaneous Notes — 



1. — Concerning the presence of the Taraxacum officinale in the 



Nilgherries , • 206 



2i — A Variety of Butea Frondosa 207 



:i. — Harpooning Crocodiles.. 207 



4. — A Man-eating Panther \ jq^ 



5. — The Cultivation of Oranges, Lemons, and Figs in India . ,111 



ti # — Distribution of Indian Crocodiles 2l<; 



7. — Victoria Crown Pigeons breeding in Confinement 117 



8. — Indian Otters , 217 



9. — Our Hymenoptera 2 18 



Tboceedings jj£ 



The Proposed Introduction of Game into the neighbourhood of 



Bombay „ ll9 



Pithtcolobiitm unguis . 204 



