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mentions a cobra (Naia tripudiam) swallowing another snake (Macropisthodon 

 rhodomelas). The same observer in the Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., May 16th, 

 1899, pago 680, records a tree-snake (Dipsadomorphis dendrophilus) having 

 swallowed another tree-snake (Chrysqpelea ornata) rather longer than itself. 



The same observer in the same Journal, page 684, says he has known the 

 dhaman {Zamenh mucosus) eat a snake (Ckrysopelea ornata). 



In the B. N. H. S. Journal, Vol. XIII, page 352, Captain G. H. Evans and 

 I record an earth-snake (Xenopdtis unicolor) devouring a snake (Trophlonotus 

 stolatus). 



In the same volume, page 534, I record a tree-snake (Dipsadomorphus multi- 

 mactdata) falling a prey to a companion species with which it was placed in 

 captivity. 



In the B. N. H. S. Journal, Vol. X, page 10, Mr. Ferguson mentions a rat- 

 snake, presumably Zamenis mucosus, eating another when in captivity, both 

 creatures having struggled with the same victim (a frog). 



Mr. Buckland in " Curiosities of Natural History," page 182, relates having 

 seen in the Zoological Gardens in London an English snake (Tropidonotus 

 natrix ?) in the act of swallowing a French species, and remarks that the snake 

 swallowed was about the same size of the swallower. 



F. WALL, Captain, I.M.S. 



Cannanore, 10th November 1903. 



No. XII— THE OCEANIC, OR ANDAMAN TEAL {NETT1UM 



ALLIGVLARE). 



I received some time ago from the Indian Museum a male skin of this species 

 with a patch of white on the hindneck ; otherwise the bird is in normal plumage, 

 having a white patch on the lores and round the eye. I can find no record 

 of either Mr. Finn or anyone else having found white feathers in the same 

 place. 



CHAS. M. INGLIS. 



Baghownie Factory, 20th November 1903. 



No. XII (b) .— THE OCEANIC, OR ANDAMAN TEAL (NETTIUM 



ALBIGULARE). 



In the Fauna of British India, Birds, Vol. IV, p. 445, Dr. Blanford states, as 

 regards the distribution of this bird, that it occurs only on the South Andaman 

 Island and that it has not been observed on the North Andaman, the Cocos, 

 or the Nicobar Islands. I myself shot several specimens on the Great Cocos 

 Island as recently as June last, some of which were young birds, and the native 

 manager of the plantation on that island states that the bird is common 

 there all the year round. I have also shot this bird on Landfall Island, which 

 is, strictly speaking, the most northerly island of the Andaman group. I have 



