258 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol XVlt. 



Major A. F. Mackenzie exhibited the four feet of a black-buck shot by Mr. 

 A. Hanckel near Sholapur. The feet were all malformed and in the opinion 

 of Mr. Sowerby (C.V.D.), the Acting Principal of the Parel Veterinary College, 

 the buck must have been ill or injured for some considerable time, possibly by 

 a former shot causing injury to the spinal cord and partial paralysis of the 

 hind extremities, 



PAPERS READ. 



Mr. E Comber read a paper contributed by Mr. E. W. Oates on "The 

 Species of Bean-geese," which will be accompanied with a coloured plate of 

 the bills of the eight species that are supposed, or may possibly be found, to 

 occur in British India. He pointed out that the importance of the subject 

 from a naturalist's and a sportsman's point of view was evident from the fact 

 that of all our Indian birds the Bean-geese are in the most unsatisfactory state. 

 No specimens of Bean-geese are included in the enormous Hume collection of 

 Indian birds, and no recent writers have been satisfied with the material at their 

 command to say definitely what species of Bean-geese do occur in India. The 

 Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchtii) , which has always been included in 

 Indian lists, is really the most unlikely of all the species to occur, and Mr. Oates 

 supports his doubts on its correct identification with forcible arguments, 

 Mr. Oates is only satisfied that one species of Bean-goose, Anser micldendorji, 

 has actually been proved to have occurred in India, though further investiga- 

 tion will no doubt result in others being found. 



Mr. Comber regretled that the appeal that was included in the Society's 

 Journal of December, 1904, for the heads of Bean-geese for the purpose of 

 their correct identification had, after two cold weather shooting seasons, not 

 resulted in one single specimen of a Bean-goose's head being received by the 

 Society, and he again appealed lo members for as many specimens as possible 

 next season, so that this important question may be cleared up. 



The following notes were also read : — " On the Magpie Robin," by Mr. E.C. 

 Cholmondely ; and " A large Dhaman" {Zammis vmcoms), by Mr. F. Gleadow, 

 l.F.S. 



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