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bringing them forward and striking back with them. The legs seemed to trail 

 quite motionless. It was too exhausted to struggle at first, ami when it tried to 

 flap away, could neither raise itself from the ground nor even hop, without 

 tumbling over constantly. Seeing it so helpless, we took it home in our tiffin- 

 basket and gave it food. Next morning, on being given its liberty, it flew away. 

 It seemed a very young bird, though fully-fledged. The incident of a land- 

 bird taking to the water twice, the second time with no apparent compulsion, 

 seemed to me curious enough to be worth communicating. 



L. P. BOMBAY. 



Bambay, November 21st, 1890. 



X.— BEES DESTROYED BY LAPINDUS EMABGINATUS. 

 I am sending you a box of dead bees* I picked up under a tree now in flower 

 in the gardens, Lapindus emarginatus. The tree begins to flower about the 

 middle of October, and bears a profusion of small whitish inodorous blossoms 

 which attract the bees. It seems very strange that insects possessing such a 

 wonderful instinct should drink the nectar from the flower and get killed hi 

 this way, for I found them dead in thousands under the tree. The effect 

 produced appears to be that of a powerful purgative, and there are now numbers 

 of bees buzzing about on the ground unable to fly. 



THOS. H. STOREY. 



Oodeypore, December, 1890. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEPTEMBER MEETING. 



The usual Monthly Meeting of the Members of this Society took place at their 

 rooms in Apollo Street on Tuesday, the 23rd September, and was largely attended. 

 Dr. Maconachie presiding. 



The following new Members were elected as from the 1st of October : — Mr. J. B. 

 Fuller, C.S. (Nagpore), Mr. C. S. Spalding (Bhownngger), Mr. D. Knight, Mr. John 

 E. Penton (Jacobabad), and Monsieur H. Levelle (Pondicherry) . 



Mr. H. M. Phipson, the Honorary Secretary, then acknowledged the following con- 

 tributions: — 



CONTRIBUTIONS DURING AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER. 



Contributions. 



Descriptions. 



Contributors. 



1 Toddy Cat (alive) 



2 Snakes (alive) 



1 Indian Monitor (Vive)... 

 1 Collection of Butterflies. . 



1 Green Dove 



2 Sheer Waters, a quantity 

 of fish & marine animals. 



Paradoxurus musanga 



Tropidouotus stolatus and 



Zamenis fasciolatus. 

 Varan us bengalensis 



•From Alibag. 



Mr. N. M. Patel. 

 Mr. J. Mason. 



Mr. G. de Saone. 

 Mr. W. George. 



Mr. W. F. Sinclair, O.S. 





* Apis indica. — Editor. 



