CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Page. 

 Indian Ducks and their allies. Plate XXIII. The common 



Teal (Neltion crecca) , Frontispiece. 



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



(With Plate III & Diagram VII.) By Capt. F. Wall, i.m.8., c.m.z.s. 25 D 

 On the Tentoreuinid.e and Parasitic Hymenoptera collected in 



Baluchistan by Major C. G. Nurse. Part II. By P. Cameron... 274 

 On the Tenthredinid.e and Parasitic Hymenoptera collected 

 by Major C. G. Nurse in Kashmir. By P. Cameron 280 



The Kashmir Termite (Tekmopsis wroughtoni). By J. Desuenx 293 



The Poisonous Snakes of India and how to recognize them. 



Part II. By Capt. F. Wall, I.M.S., c.m.z.s 299 



Flowering Season and Climate. Part I. {With 3 Pia'es). By 



E. Blatter, s.J. , 334 



The Oology of Indian Parasitic Cuckoos. Part II. (With Plate II) 



By E. 0. Stuart Baker, f.z.s 351 



The Snake and its Natural Foes. By Capt. F. Wall, i.m.s., c.m.z.s. 375 



Some Hints for Beginners on Collecting and Preserving Natural 

 Htstory Specimens Part IV. By E. Comber, f.z.s 39G 



Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. P<-irt II. By E. Mey- 



rick, b.a., f.r.s., f.z.s 403 



The Common Butterflies of the Plains of India. Part II. (With 



Plate B). By L. 0. H. Yonug, b.a., f.e.s., f.z.s 418 



Insect Life in India and how to study it, being a simple account 

 of the hork important families of insects with examples 

 of the damage they do to crops, Tea, Coffee and Indigo 

 Conckrns, Fruit axe Forest Trees in India. Chapter VII, 

 Part IV. By E. P. Stebbing, f.l.s., f.z.s., f.e.s, .- 424 



The Moths of India (Supplementary Paper to the Volumes tn 

 "The Fauna of BtansH India"). Series III, Part III. By Sir 

 Georgt Hampson, BarD., f.z.s., f.e.s 447 



Birds of the Provinces of Kashmir and Jammu and adjacent 

 Districts. Part II. By A. E. Ward 479 



Notes on Andaman Birds, with Accounts of the Nidification of 

 several species whose Nests and Eggs have not been 

 hitherto described. Part II. By 13. B. Osmaston, i.f.s 48G 



A Ltst of Birds found in the Myingyan District of Burma. 



Part II. ByK. C. M icdonald 4!>2 



A List of Publications relating to India from the " Zoological 

 Record," 1003 and 1004 505 



Notes on the Genus later a with Descriptions of New Species. By 



E. C. Wronghton .,;.. 511 



-Miscellaneous Notes — 



1. Breeding habits of the Great Crested Grebe (JPodicipes cridatut). 



By Gordon Dalgliesh 515 



