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Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



4 Species of Snakes 



A number of Beetles 

 1 Malay Bittern ... 

 1 Snake ... ... • 



1 Snake (alive) 



1 Crimson-breasted Barbet 



or Coppersmith. 

 1 Indian Pied Kingfisher 

 1 Franklin's Nightjar 

 1 Pied Crested Cuckoo 

 1 Rose-ringed Paroquet , 

 1 Painted S:md -grouse , 

 1 Large or BUck-bellied 



Sand-grouse. 

 1 Large Pin-taied Sand 



grouse. 



3 Common Kand-grouBe .. 



1 Grey Partridge 



1 Red Shank 



4 Wood-snipes 



1 Western Bamboo Par- 

 tridge. 



A collection of Mantidse 



1, Snake 



1 Saake (alive) 



1 Snake 



1 Saake 



1 Snake " Dhaman " 



2 Hawk Bill Turtles from 

 Port Blair (alive). 



31 Eggs of Roseate Tern 



3 Snakes 



1 Black-tailed Godwit 



1 Snake (alive) 



2 Snakes 



1 Snake 



Lycodon aulieus, v ar . 



Lycodon travancoricus. 

 Bungarus candidus 

 Polyedontophis subpuncta- 



tus. 

 Buprestidce sp m 

 Gorsachius melanolophus ... 

 Bungarus canitidus 

 Zamenis mucositis ... ... 



Xantholcena hcemstucephala. 



Ceryle varia. 

 Capriiuulgus monticola 

 Cocr.ystes Jacob inus 

 Palceornis torquatus 

 Pterocles fasciatus 

 Pterocles arenarius 



Pteroclurus alchata 



Pteroclurus exustus 

 Francolinus pondicerianus. 

 Tot anus calidris 

 Gallinago nemoricola 

 Bambusicola fytchii 



Psammophis leithii 



Dipsas forsteni 



Simotes amensis ... ... 



Oligodon sp... ... ... I 



Zamenis mucosus 



Chelone inbricata 



Sterna doug alii 



lycodon aulieus, dark va- 

 riety. 



Limosa cegocephala 



Tpimeresurus monticola ... 



Psammodynastes pulveru- 

 lentus. 



Poly odontophus eollaris ... 



Capt. P. Wall, I.M.S. 



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Mr. F. G.Arnold. 

 Mr. R. G Foster. 

 Mr. C. H. Donald. 



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 Maj. C. G. Nurse. F.E.S. 



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Mr. S. Lightfoot. 

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 Mr. T. Ruttonji. 

 Col. Bannerman, I.M.S. 

 Mr. C. H. Donald. 



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 Mrs. Inglis. 

 Mr. C. Gilbert Rogers, 



I.F.S. 

 Mr. W. F. Jardine. 

 Col. W, B. Bannerman, 

 I.M.S. 



Mr. H. S. Symons. 

 Mr. A Wright. 

 Mr. J. Donaghey. 



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PLAGUE, EATS, AND FLEAS. 

 Captain Liston defined plague as a rat disease which was not unfrequently 

 under favouring circumstances communicated to man. The disease, there- 

 fore, among men might almost be said to be accidental and certainly avoida- 

 ble if there were a distance between rats and men. He said that the idea 

 that rats played the most important part in the spread of plague was no new 

 one, it was recognised by the ancients as well as by more recent authorities 

 who had practical experience of the disease If it was a rat's disease then it 

 was likely that the disease had its own distinct laws of origination and con- 

 tinuance among these animals. It was precisely this study of the disease in 

 rats that had been neglected. Before any progress could be made we wanted 

 to know more about the life and habits of rats. He then proceeded to dis- 



