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great activity, and the antics it indulged in to avoid capture, including 

 jumping, made it a most difficult snake to manage." 



(u') I notice Annandale (in Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, Vol. 1, No. 10, p. 195) says : " Their food consists wholly 

 or chiefly of fish, and they do not, as a rule, molest the large tank 

 frogs (Rana tigrina) which may sometimes be seen sitting side by side 

 with them on stones in the water." This statement has caused me 

 to refer to my notes again. I find 5 specimens last year in Fyzabad 

 had fed : two of these contained a single frog each, another a single 

 toad, another two frogs (Rana tigrina), and another one frog and 

 three toads, so that these records support my former observations. 



(7) Mr. E. E. Green writes to me that he recently obtained a 

 specimen with the internasals confluent into one shield. 



(8) I have once seen four prefrontals in a single row across tho 

 snout. 



