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couple of feet where it was, it nearly always took nie some moments to locate 

 it, so exactly did the sitting bird resemble the face of the ground on which 

 she was sitting, crouched low and with feathers spread to meet the earth all 

 round her nearly flat. In no state of the snn did she throw the slightest 

 shadow. 



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^\'hen she began sitting I do not know, but I watched her almost daily 

 from about the 10th to the 27th April, when the photographs were taken, 

 and a few days later there was a single addled egg in the nest, so that, 

 presumably, she hatched out two chicks about the 28th. She had got so 

 accustomed to me and the horse that she never left the nest, and after a 

 few trials of approach, I took the camera and was able camera in hand to 

 take photographs of her on the nest at eight feet from the lens. 



I never saw the cock bird sitting, nor did I see him about the nest at 

 any time. The hen used to leave the nest between 6 and 7 a.m. to feed 

 every morning, but whether she left again in the evening I was unable to 

 discover. The snap gives a very good idea of the invisibility of the bird 

 m her surroundings. 



C. BEADON. 



Camp Maski, Deccajs, 

 •loth May 1915. 



No. 1^~ERYX COMCUS BREEDING IN CAPTIVITY, 



With the intention of elucidating the breeding habits of this snake, a 

 pair of adults was confined together in the vivaria of the Nagpur Museum 



