530 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVI. 



Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor, 



21 Young Snakes (alive). .. 



1 D^ert L»rk 



1 Indian Monitor, (juv). 



1 Himalayan Ibex Head 

 (Malformed). 



1 Blewitfs Bush-Quail 



L' Lady Amherst^ Pheasants. 



•1 Singapore Cockatoo 

 (alive). 



2 Snakes 



Trupidonotus piscator 

 Alaemon dexertorum . 

 Varanus bengalevgig . 



Copra aibirica. 



Miemperdix blewHti 



Chrytolopkiut am berstiae. 



1 Indian Hobby. 



1 Indian Monitor (juv) 



1 Set Snake 



1 Large-Crested Tern 



I Smalk r-Crested Tern and 3 



eggs. 

 1 White-Cheeked Tern and 3 



1 Panayan Tern and 4 eggs. 



Zamenix munotut swallowing 



Pgavimophig < oudonarvx 

 Faleo sei'tnis 



Va ra n us bmgalensi* . 



Distira rob'sta 



Sterna bergu 



tsterno media 



Stf'aa albigena.. 

 Sterna anaestheta 



Major A. Begbie. 



Mr. J. W. N. Cummin?. 



Mr. C. W. M Hudsoo, 



I.C.S. 

 Col. St G. C- Gore, R E., 



C.S.I. 

 Mr. P. Roseal Allen. 

 Lt. W. W. Van Someien, 



D.S.O. 

 Mr. F. II. Cooke. 



Mr. S. Lightfoot. 



Mr. K. C. Macdonald, 



D.S.P. 

 Mr. M. C. Joshi. 

 Mr. C. J. Michael. 

 Major P. Z. Cox, F.Z.S. 



° Forwarded to the Victoria Gardens. 

 Minor Contributions from— Mr. W. Sparke ; Mr. F. Gleadow ; Mr. F. G . 

 Arnould ; Capt. C. H. Turner; Mr. Wagstaff ; Mrs. A. L. Alexander; Miss 

 F. Bayley ; Mr. C. W. M. Hudson, I.O.S.; and Col. W. Capper. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Fauna of British India, ' Butterflies," Vol. I., by Col. C. T. Bingham, from 

 the author. " Spolia Zeylanica," from the Colombo Museum. Bulletin of the 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Western India, Nos. 2 and 3. The 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society of the London, 1904, in exchange. 

 '• On the Elephant Mosquito," by E. E. Green, from the author. 



Catalogue of Moths, Vols. IV and V. (Text and Plates), Guide to Bird 

 Gallery, Guide to Shell and Starfish Galleries. Guide to Coral Gallery. Guide to 

 Fossil Mammals and Birds, Handbook for Collectors and Blood-sucking Flies 

 an 1 ! how to collect them, from the British Museum, South Kensington. In 

 exchange. 



Catalogue of the Indian Decapod Crustacea, in the collection of the Indian 

 Museum by Major A. Alcock, I. M.S., F.R.S., C.I.E., and an account of the 

 deep-sea Hoiothurisidea collected by the R.I.M. Survey ship "Investigator," 

 by R. Kochler and C. Vancv. Presented by the Trustees of the Indian 

 Museum. 



PAPERS READ. 



The following papsrs were then read and discussed : (1) The Distribution of 

 the Various Varieties of Cobras in India, by Lt.-Co'. W. B. Bannerman.I.M.S.; 

 (2) The Common Striped Palm Squirrel, by R. C. Wroughton, *'.Z.S.;(3) Birds' 



