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Nesting in the Murree Hills, by Lt.-Col. R. H. Rattray ; (4) Rough Notes on 

 Six Common Hill Orchids, by Major M. B. Roberts ; (6) Tigers hamstringing 

 their Prey before killing it, by C. W. Allan, B.F.S.; (G) Food of Predaccous 

 Flies, by F. Gleadow, F.R.M.S., I.F.-.; (7) Descriptions of New Speciesof Moths 

 from India and Burma, by G.C. Dudgeon, F.E.S.; (8) Strange Mortality amongst 

 Termites on Tea Bushes, by E. E. Green, F.E.S.; (9) Occurrence of Lady 

 Amherst's Pheasant in Burma, by E. Comber, F.Z.S.; (10) First Record of the 

 Nidification of the Indian Hobby (Fatco severus), by K. C. Macdonald, D.S.P. ; 

 (11) A Bandicoot in Sind, by E. H. Aitken ; (12) Eagles as Barometers, by C. 

 H. Donald ; (13) A Congregation of Harriers, by C. H. Donald. 



EXHIBITS. 



Colonel Bannerman, I.M.S , exhibited the different varieties of Cobras (alive) 

 and a number of spirit specimens. He mentioned that out of more than 1,000 

 cobras received by them at Parel only 8 were from the Bombay Presidency, 

 and these had been purchased. This did not speak well for science on this 

 side of India, and it was to be hoped now that attention had been drawn to 

 the subject that members of the Natural History Society and others would send 

 in specimens. 



A curiously malformed head of the Himalayan Ibex (Capro sihirica) was 

 exhibited and Colonel St. G. C. Gore, 1!. E., in referring to it, drew attention 

 to the fact that it must have died from starvation as the malformed horn 

 completely closed the jaws and would have prevented it from feeding. 



Mr. Narotamdass Morarjee Goculdass exhibited a beautiful flowering lily 

 (L. melpomene), which was much admired. 



In proposing a vote of thanks to Colonel Bannerman and the other authors 

 of papers read, the Rev. F. Dreckmann said that he hoped that the reproach 

 which was lying on this Presidency would be speedily removed and that cobras 

 from this side of India, as well as elsewhere, would be forwarded to Colonel 

 Bannerman at Parel. 



