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quantity of this dark-green discharge. He did this yesterday morning and 

 died from its effect last evening. In his death struggles which pointed con- 

 clusively to a death by some virulent poison — he expelled all the dark-green 

 stuff he had swallowed in the morning. 



Perhaps there is some other solution to the bull-terrier's life having been 

 saved from the effect of the cobra bite and to the terrier's untimely death 

 from swallowing what was an evident poisonous discharge, not to mention the 

 effect on the pregnant condition of the slut. 



C. GRENVILLE ROLLO. 

 Ajmere, Rajputana, 9th August 1906. 

 [It is not an unusual event for animals to be bitten by our deadliest snakes 

 with serious, trivial or no ill effects. The bitch in question evidently received 

 a sublethal dose of poison and would have lived without any treatment. That 

 practised we know would not have been of the least avail if the dcse had been 

 a lethal one. We can offer no explanation for the death of the dog. — 



Editors.] 



No. VI.— OCCURRENCE OF THE CHEER PHEASANT (CATREUS 

 WALL1CH1) IN THE N. W. F. PROVINCE. 



I wish to record having obtained a specimen of the Cheer Pheasant at Durg 

 Galli in the N. W. F. Province on the 25th July. I believe this pheasant has 

 not been recorded so far west as this before, and in the " Fauna of British 

 India, Birds," the range is mentioned as from Chamba on the west. 



I heard of these birds here last year from a shikari, but could not get a 

 specimen, and again this season I heard of them. I have heard them calling 

 often from a small hillock opposite my house, and on several occasions tried to 

 get them, but without success. This evening I heard them again shortly before 

 sunset and being busy sent my man after them. I did not see him shoot but 

 heard the shot fired and he called out at once from across the khud that he had 

 hit one. In about half an hour he brought it in as it had fallen a long way 

 down the khud among jungle and scrub and then had to be chased for some 

 distance. The bare sides of the face were of a crimson colour. This bird was 

 shot at about 8,000 feet above sea level. The native name for it is "Rehar. " 



WALTER VENOUR, Major, 58th Rifles. 

 Ddrga Galli, Hazara District, 25th July 1906. 



No. VII— A NEW SPECIES OF TREE-PARTRIDGE {ARBORICOLA 

 B AT EM AN I) FROM THE CHIN BILLS. 



{From the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, No. CXXIII.) 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grapt described a new Tree-Partridge from the Chin Hills, 

 which he proposed to call : — 



Abboricola Batemam, sub sp. n. 



$ Adult. Closely allied to A. torqueola, from which it is distinguished by hav- 

 ing the entire sides of the neck chestnut, spotted with black. In A. torqueola, a 



