732 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol XV. 



Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



1 Tufted Duck... 



2 Persian House Mice 



1 Brown Musk Shrew 



1 White-nosed Weasel 



1 New Rat 



1 Houbara 



1 Bronze-winged Dove 



(alive). 



1 Slender Loris 



1 Slaty-backed Forktail 



1 Green Tree Snake 



A number of Butterflies 



from Poona. 



1 Python (alive).., 



1 Siberian Viper (i r o m 



Bagdad). 

 1 Small Indian Civet (alive) 



Myreca fuligula .. 



J/vs bactriamts 



Cmcidura murina 

 Putoriu* canigula 

 Mvs vicerex sj). n 



Mr. C. H. Donald. 

 Col. A. E. Ward. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Houbara, macqueeni Mr. R. H. Brooke. 



Chalcophaps indica Mr. C. M. Sherman 



I (Calicut). 



Loris gracilis jMr. W. Copleston, I.F.S. 



Henicurus schistaceus !Mr. S. L. Whymper. 



Dryophu mycttrimns JMr. F. J. Rome. 



Mrs. Thomson. 



Python molurus 



Viverricula malaccentis . 



Mr. T. J. Spooner, C.E.. 

 !Capt. W. H. Cox, I.M.S- 



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I Mr. J.M. Lobo. 



Minor contributions from Mr. C. V. Vernon, I.C.S., Dr. E. Wells-Witham 

 and H. H. the Rao Saheb of Cutch. 



The following contributions to the Library have been made :■ — Rivista 

 critica del Genere Gossypium, pel Dottor Angelo Aliotta, from the Author ; 

 and The Geography of Mammals by Dr. W. L. Sclater and P. L. Sclater, from 

 the Authors. 



The following papers were then read and discussed : — 



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5. 

 6. 



The popular names of some plants, by E. Comber, F.Z.S. 

 Abnormal growth of trees by C. E. C. Fischer, I.F.S. 

 Some notes on Harrier Hawks in Uva, Ceylon, by F. Sikes. 

 The Batrachians of Travancore, by H. S. Ferguson, F.L.S. 

 Some notes on various insects, by L. C. H. Young. 

 The colouration of birds' eggs, by D. Dewar, I.C.S. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE MEETING HELD ON THURSDAY, THE 

 25th FEBRUARY 1904. 

 A meeting of the members took place at the Society's rooms on Thursday, the 

 25th February 1904, the Rev. E. Blatter, S.J., presiding. 



NEW MEMBERS. 

 The election of the following new members since the last meeting was duly 

 n nnounced: — Major H. D. Merewether (Jhalawad Prant, Guzerat) ; Mr. W. G. 

 Wooster (Yawng Hwe, S. Shan States) ; Mr. S. M. Douglas, B.A. (Mandalay) ; 

 Mr. H. R. Rylands (Manekpur, Bassein Eoad) ; Mr. Shivrsm V. Bhandarkar 

 B.A., LL.B. (Bombay); Major A. R. Knox, R.F.A. (Barrackpore); Mr. E. 

 Staples, C.E. (Dum Dum) ; Captain E. C. MacLeod, I.M.S. (Aijal, Lushai 

 Hills, Assam) ; Mr. F. Napier (Karachi Canals, Sind) ; Captain F. D. S. Fayrer, 

 I M.S. (Madras); Mr. G. E. Lodge (London) ; Mr. R. A. Lyall (Rajputana) '■> 

 Lieutenant-Colonel P. Schlctter, C.B. (Rangoon) ; Mr. II. H. F. M. Tyler* 



