

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII. 



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A Popular Treatise on the Common Indian Snakes. Part II. 

 By Capt. F. Wall, r.M.S., c.m.z.s. (With Plate II and 

 Diagrams TV, V and VI.) 1 



On some New Species of Silver Pheasants from Burma. By- 

 Eugene W. Oates 10 



Snake Venoms and their .Antidotes : an account of recent 



research. By Capt. George Lamb, m.d., i.m.s 13 



Samber Horns. By J. D. Inverarity. (With 4 Plates) 23 



A New Snake ^Melanelaps mcfhersoni) from the Aden Hin- 

 terland. By Capt. F. Wall, i.m.s , C.M.Z.S 27 



A New Himalayan Snake (Lycodon mackinnoni). By Capt. F. 



Wall, i.m.s., c.m.z.s 29 



The Orchids of the Bombay Presidency, Part III. By G. A. 



Gammie, f.l.s. (With Plate 1 J.) 31 



On the Species of Bean-Geese. By Eugene W. Oates, f.z.s. 



{With a Plate).. 38 



The Poisonous Snakes of India and how to recognize them. 



Part I. By Capt. F. Wall, i.m.s., c.m.z.s 51 



The Oology of Indian Parasitic Cuckoos. Part I. By E. C. 



Stuart Baker, f.z.s. (With Plate A) 72 



Tub " Pectinate Organs " of Trapa bispinosa, Roxb. ( Water- 

 Chestnut). By E. Blatter, s.j 85 



On the Tenthredinid.^e and Parasitic Hymenoptera collected 

 in Baluchistan by Major C. G. Nurse. Part I. By P. 

 Cameron 89 



Birds of the Provinces of Kashmir and Jammu and adjacent 

 Districts. Parti. By A. E. Ward 108 



First Hints on collecting Butterflies (being a Supple- 

 mentary Papkr to the Articles on the Common Butter- 

 flies on the Plains of India). By L. C. H. Young, b.a., 

 f.z.s., f.e.s 114 



Notes and Observations on Mammals collected and observed 



in the Darjeeling District, India. By Gordon Dalgliesh. 122 



