CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVI. 



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The Birds of Travancore, By H. S. Ferguson, f.l.s. With 



Notes on their Nidification. By T. F. Bourdillon, f.l.s. 



Part III 1 



New Species of Indian Hymenoptera. By Major C. G. Nurse, 



113th Infantry, Indian Army 19 



Sexual Colour- Dimorphism in Birds. By D. Dewar, i.c.s.... 27 



Note on Sexual Dimorphism. By L. C. H. Young, b.a 37 



Note on Sexual Dimorphism. By Capt. W. G. Liston, i.m.s., 



m.d., f.r.s.e... ,«,.'. 39 



Notes on the Birds of Chitral. By Capt. H. T. Fulton, d.s.o. 44 

 Water- Yielding Plants found in the Thana Forests. By G. 



M. Ryan, i.f.s., f.l.s 65 



The Birds of the Madhubani Sub-division of the Dar- 



bhanga District, Tirhut, with Notes on Species noticed 



elsewhere in the District. By C. M. Inglis, Part VIII... 70 

 The Butterflies of Ceylon. By Major N. Manders, r.a.m.c, 



F.Z.S., F.E.S 76 



Description of Sixty-eight New Shells from the Persian 

 Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged 

 by Mr. F. W.Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph 

 Service. By James Cosmo Melvill, M.A., f.l.s., f.z.s., and 

 Robert Standen, Assistant Keeper, Manchester Museum, ' 

 Part I. (Plates A, B) 86 



List of Indian Birds' Eggs in the Bombay Natural History 

 Society's Collection on 1st September 1904 99 



On Some New Species of Silver-Pheasants obtained in Burma, 

 by Capt. W. G. Nisbett, Lieut. It. Clifford, and others. 

 By Eugene W. Oates ]12 



Insect Life in India and How to Study it, belng a Simple 

 Account of the more important Families of Insects, 

 with Examples of the Damage they do to Crops, Tea, 

 Coffee and Indigo Concerns, Fruit and Forest Trees in 

 India. By E. P. Stebbing, f.l.s., f.z.s., f.f^s 115 



The Moths of India. (Supplementary Paper to the Volumes 

 in " The Fauna of British India"), Series III, Part II. By 

 Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. (With Plate D) ... 132 



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