PROCEEDINGS. 



157 



Contributions. 



Description. 



Contributors. 



1 Skin of the Burmese lied 



Munia. 



2 Skins of the Pegu House 



iSparrow, 



2 Skins of the Burmese Red- 

 vented bulbul. 



1 Skin of the Burmese 

 Shrike. 



1 Skin of the Burmese 



Nuthatch. 



2 Skins of the Burmese 



Spotted Babbler. 

 1 Common Snipe (albino). 



Sporeeginthus flavidwentris 



Passer jiaveolus 



Molpastes burmaniciis 



Lanius colurioides 



Sitta neglecta 



Pellomeum subochraceum... 

 Gallinago coelestis , 



1 



-Capt. H. H. Harrington. 



Capt. P. P. Kilkelly,I.M.8. 



MINOR CONTRIBUTION. 

 From Mrs. A. K. Oliver. 



CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY. 



" The Butterflies of India, Burma and Ceylon," i 



Vols. I, II, and III, by Marshall and de Nice- \ Presented by Mr. C. 

 ville. ) Crommelin. 



PAPERS READ. 

 The following papers were then read : — " On two Cetaceans from Travan- 

 core by H. S. Ferguson, with a Note on the same," by R. Lydekker, B.A., 

 F.R S., &c., in which a new porpoise or dolphin, named Tursiops Fergusoni, 

 was described. 



Mr. E. H. Aitken also read a paper on " The Butterflies of Bombay and 

 the surrounding country" written by himself and Mr. E. Comber. The 

 paper was made more interesting by specimens of the various butterflies being 

 exhibited and referred to. 



A vote of thanks was passed to the authors of the papers, and the meeting 

 then terminated. 



PROCEEDINGS 

 OF THE MEETING HELD ON THURSDAY, THE 5th 



MARCH 1903. 

 The monthly meeting of the members of the Bombay Natural History 

 Society was held at the Society's Rooms on Thursday, the 5th March 1903 ; 

 His Excellency Lord Northcote presiding. 



NEW MEMBERS. 

 The election of the following new members was announced : — 

 Mr. V. G. Morgan, I.F.S. (Hoshangabad, C.P.) ; Mr. H. H. Mann (Cal- 

 cutta) ; Mr. J. E. C. Tukes, 1.0.8. (Ahmedabad) ; Mr. E. H. Waterfield, I.C.S. 

 (Kaira) ; Mr. J. T. Scotson, I.C.S. (Ahmedabad) ; Major R. H. G. Be\gate, 

 D.S.O. (Thayetmyo, Burma) ; Mr. W. M. Nuttall (Dibrugarh, Upper Assam) ; 

 Mr. J. Malcolm Maclaren (Calcutta) ; Lieut. E. C. Coates (Ranikhet) ; 

 Mr. R. H. Anderson (Dera Ismail Khan); Captain J. G. Hulbert, I.M.S., 



