CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGE. 



Indian Ducks and their Allies. By E. 0. Stuart Baker, f.z.s. 



Part VIII. (With Plate VIIL) 593 



The Ferns of North-Westeen India. By C. W. Hope. Part II coutd. 



{With Plates IX to XIV) 621 



Nesting in Kashmir. By Lieut. N. F. T. Wilson, r.i.m 634 



A NEW Sea-Snake of the Genus Distira., frosi Kuerachee. By 



G. A. Boalenger, F.R.S. {With a Plate) 642 



A Catalogue of the Heterocera of Sikhim and Bhutan. By G. C. 



Dudgeon, f.e.s., Part VI 643 



The Hill Forests op Westeen India. By H. M. Bird wood, c.s.i., 



ll.d., M.A., late Vice-President of the Bombay Nat. Hist. Society... 659 

 Description of a new Androsace from the North-Western 



Himalaya. By J. F. Duthie 675 



BlEDS COLLECTED IN THE HyLAKANDY DiSTEICT, CaCHAR. By 



0. M. Inglis. Part VII 676 



Birds of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. By A. L. Butler, 



F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., ETC., Curator, Selangor State Museum. Part III. 



{With a Plate) 684 



The Moths op India (Supplementaey Paper to the volumes in 



THE " Fauna of Beitish India"). By Sir George F. Hampson, 



Bart., F.Z.S., F.E.S. Part VII.,. , 697 



Some Konkan Bats. By R. 0. Wroughton, c.m.z.s., Indian Forest 



Service. {With a Plate) 716 



Fishing in Indian Waters. By F. 0. Gadsden, r.i.m. Part IV. ... 726 

 List of Indian Bieds' Eggs in the Bombay Natural History 



Society's Collection 734 



Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida. By E. I. Pocock, 



Zool. Dept., British Museum 744 



Review — The Game Birds of India, Part II 754 



Miscellaneous Notes — 



1. Note on Diacamma^ a Pouerine Genus of Ants, and of the finding of a 



female of D. vagans^ Smith. By Col. C. T. Bingham 756 



2. A " Rare " Bat— An Appeal. By R. C. Wroughton 757 



3. Food of Pernis Cristatus Cuv (The Crested Honey-Bazzard> By 



0. M. Inglis 758 



4. List of Birds of the Kyaukse District. By Major J. H. Sewell 758 



5. Notes on the IlypoooUus Ampelnius, (The Bulbul Shrike). By W. D. 



Gumming, c.m.z.s 760 



6. Two unusual Specimens of Tropidonotus stolatus. By Capt. F. Wall, 



I.M.S , 765 



7. Duration of Parturition in the Daboia (^Vipera russellii). By E. C. 



Cholmondeley 765 



8. Occurrence of the Green-billed Shearwater QPitffinut chlororhyncvs') on 



the Mekran Coast. By W. D. Gumming 766 



9. Notes on a very unusual Specimen of Simotes violaceous or a Possible 



now Species. By Capt. F. Wall, I.M.S 766 



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