CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



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Indian Ducks and their Allies. {Plate XXVII.) The White- 

 winged Wood Duck (Asarcornis scutulata) Frontispiece. 



A Popular Treatise on the Common Indian Snakes. Part VII. 

 The Saw-scaled Viper or Echis {Edit* ranuata) and The 

 Gamma or Common Brown Tree-Snake {Dipwhmoqilim trigo- 

 nritus), (With Plate 711, t; Bun/rums and 3 Maps.) By Major 



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Bean-Geese of Asia. By S. A. Buturlin 555 



The Flora op the Bombay Presidency. (Statistico-Biological 



Notes.) {With Plate A.) By E. Blatter, S.J 562 



The Moths of India. Series III, Part KB By Sir Geo. Hampsoii, 



Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s 572 



The Orchids of the Bombay Presidency. Part VI. {With Plates V 



and VI.) By G. A. Gammie, f.l.s 5S(l 



Caterpillars as Ants' Pets. By E. Blatter, S.J, 591 



Biological Notes on Omental Hemiptera, No. 1. (With a Plate.) 



By J. C. Kershaw and G. W. Kirkaldy ■ 596 



Ferns of the Bombay Presidency. By E. Blatter, S.J 599 



Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. Part VII. By E. 



Meyrick, b.a., f.b.s., f.z.s , 013 



Ceylon Ferns in the Bombay Natural History Society's 

 Herbarium. By E. Blatter, S.J 689 



A Contribution to the Aculeate Hymenoptera of the Bombay 



Presidency. By P. Cameron 649 



Review. — By E. H. A. (" Plagues and Pleasures of Life in Bengal," by 



Lieut.-Col. D. D. Cunningham, c.i.e., f.r.s.) 660 



Correspondence. — Proposed alteration to the Forest Pailes in reference to 

 the closs time for Quail and Bustard in the Bombay Presidency. — 

 Proposed investigation and protection of the Fisheries of Western 

 India 665 



Miscellaneous Notes—- 



1. A wonderful Leopard Skin. (Frovi " The Field?) 670 



2. A Panther and a Buffalo. By H. Tyler, i.C.S 070 



3. The Indian Mongoose. By Fleur-de-Lys. (From " The Field:'') 071 



i. Indian Hares. By Fleur-de-Lys. (From " The Field:''} 073 



5. Abnormal antlers of Spotted Deer or Chital (Csrtus </xi*). By 



Major S. H. Powell, e.e .*. 075 



6. A large Sambkar head (Malay variety). By Major C. R. Pearce, 



m.s 676 



7. A Siamese Hog-Deer. By E. Lydekker. (From " The Field.'"') 077 



S. A new Gazelle from Persia. By E. Lydekker. (From " The Field:').. 077 

 9. Major Kennion's Gazelle. By E. Lydekker. (From " The Field.") ... 078 



