• A POPULAR TREA TJSE ON THE COMMON INDIAN SNAKES. 791 



natives of Sarawak with the power of springing, and Dr. Annandale 

 writing to me some time back told me that he had witnessed the 

 flight of a Bendrophis pk-tus between two trees in the Malay States 

 and caught the snake in his butterfly net. 



Food.-The only specimen of eight collected in Burma which 

 had recently fed, contained a tree frog, an. Flower has known 

 Rana macrodaet>,la, a marsh frog taken. I suspect that its gas- 

 tronomic tastes are much the same as those of trlstis. 



}3reeding.—l have no breeding events to chronicle from any 

 source. 



Dhtrihution. (a) Geographical~Yfiv\^iy typiea, occurs in the 

 Eastern Himalayas about 8ikkim up to an altitude of about 4 000 feet 

 probably the plains of Enstern Bengal, but I am not certain of this' 

 Assam probably,^ but I am not certain; one specimen I collected 1 

 reterred with some doubt to this species, the Irrawaddy-Salween 

 Basins (The Andi.mans, Nicobarsand Cocos ?j, f Indo China Malay 

 Peninsula, und the Malay Archipelago from Sumatra 'to the 

 Philippines. 



It is impossible to say whether the snake reported by StoliozkaJ 

 as common in the Himalayas, in Kmuaon and Sutlej is pictus. or tristis 

 I have never met with a specimen from the W(>slern Himalayas 

 and this is the only allusion I can find of such in literature. 



I think I am justified in doubting the habitat of Colonel Beddome'. 

 spe^imenjn the British Museum said to be from the Anamallays. 



- The cominon species in this province is proarch.s (Wall) uhich is dsscribed in a ^r 

 appeanag m thi« number (p. 827) on the 8nak..8 of As.am ^^ 



t Ih.ve lately received a specin-.en from the And.mans from Dr. N. Annand.Io Ix. 



mens before describing this in detail. '^^' ^P^°' 



: My reaaons f .r daabting ti.is record are that at least six other 1' im ;Io-Pnrn.P« 

 are recorded from Santh I.dia o. the sola author tv f rt k u '""^^^ 



varalle'as T .nh,n: ■ / /• sola authorty of IJedcomo ; thtse are Tropida.wU, 



Barm, or ^^^^U '^ "''''''''''''''''''''' ""^'^ '^''-^'- -»-'«d in 



•oUetion ''"''"''''' ^"' -^«i-r'-'^y -i-ci with his South Indian 



