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



Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



A collection of Estuary 

 Fish from Alibag. 



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1 Snake from Dthala, Aden- 

 Hinterland, n. sp. 



1 Brown Tree-Snake (alive). 



4 Persian long-tailed Field 

 Mice. 



1 Snake (alive) 



1 Blue-breasted Quail 



I Snake juv (alive) 



1 Pit-viper from Kasauli ... 

 3 Eggs of the Large Egret... 

 3 Sggs of the Smaller Egret 

 3 Eggs of the Battle Egret... 



1 Hodgson's Grandala 



1 Red-headed Laughing 



Thrash. 

 1 Snake juv , 



1 Snake juv 



1 Bandicoot-rat 



/ Clwpea Hie 



J Coilia dux Slimier i ... 



1 Etraulis mystax 



1 Lvjanus johnnii 



1 Trichiurus savala 



1 Scicena xina 



1 Ptdynem s huptadaetylux. 



1 Mngil ceur 



2 Seiceria carutta 



1 SeatopJtagu.i argus 



1 Trachanntus russellii 



1 Ca<anx nigripinnis 



Melanelapi « cpher-stmi... ... 



Dipias tr'gonata 



Mu* ar an-s 



Gongylophix conicus 



Exealfactoria ch'nen&is ... 

 Zamenis mucosits 



Lachesis gramineus 



Ilerodias alba 



Ilerodias intermedia 



Bubulcus coromavdus 



Grandala codlioolor 



Tro' halopterum erythroce- 



phalnm. 

 Slmotes amens's 



Typhidops por'ctvs 



JYesocia ba dicota 



Mr. \V. 

 I.F.S. 



A. Wal linger, 



Captain G.M. McPherson, 

 I.M.S. 

 Mr. M. Young. 

 Col. A. E. Waid. 



Capt. 0. A. Smith. 

 Major .T. W. Elgee. 

 Mr. Narotam Morarji Uo- 

 culdass. 



Capt. F. Wall, I.M.S. 

 Major J. W. Elgee. 



Major H. Delme-Radeliffe. 

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Col. H. J. Waller Barrow, 

 B.A.M.C. 



I.ieut.-Col. W. Bannerman, 

 I.M.S. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Annual Report from Lucknow Museum, Lepidoptera Indica, by Moore, Part 

 LXXIT, presented by H. H. the Maharaja of Mysore ; Scientific Memoirs by 

 Officers of the Medical and Sanitary Departments of the Government of India 

 Nos. 16 and 17, from Captain G. Lamb, I.M.S. 



EXHIBIT. 



Mr. G. Monteath, I.C.S., exhibited the skin of a black panther shot in Kanara, 

 and raised the question as to whether the tongue is black or not — as Rowland 

 Ward & Co., it would be seen, had made the tongue of this specimen quite 



black. 



PAPERS RE AO. 



The following papers were then read : — 



1. A new Himalayan snake (Lycodon maclhinoni), by Capt. F. Wall, I.M.S. 

 2 A new snake (Melanelaps mepherson'i) tro » the Aden-Hinterland, by Capt. 

 F. Wall, I.M.S. 3. Some of the indigenous and exotic fruits and vegetables 

 obtainable in Bombay, by Lieut.-Col. K. R. Kirtikar. I.M.S. (retired). 



