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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." 



(6) 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 the 

 snout. 



