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The attached list will serve as an appendix to his note, and gives the bag of 

 two parties at Tongyi and Nyaungwun respectively : — 



Gray Lag Goose {Anser rubirostris) . . 

 Bar-head Goose {Anser indicus) 

 Brahminy Duck {Casarca rutila) 

 Nukhtas l^Sarcidiornis melanonotus) . . 

 Burmese Grey Duck {Anas haringtoni) 

 Chinese Grey Duck {Anas zonorhyncha) 

 Pintail Duck {Dafila acuta) . . 

 Gadwall ( Chaulelasmus streperus) 

 Wigeon ( Mareca penelope) 

 Shoveller {Spatula clypeata) 

 Tufted Duck {Fidigula fuligula) 

 Common Pochard {Nyroca ferina) 

 White-eyed Pochard {Nyroca africana) 

 Common Teal {Nettium crecca) 

 Garganay Teal {Querquedula circia) 

 Cotton „ {Nettojjus coromandelianus) 



Whistling „ {Dendrocycna javanica) 

 At Nyaungwun this year there was a lot of water and birds were not 

 plentiful, except Tufted Duck who were in flocks on the open water. 



Mandalay, 22nd March 1913. 



C. N. BELL, i.c.s. 



No. XXI.- 



-A RARE SNAKE ELACHISTODON WE8TERMANNI 

 FROM THE JALPAIGURI DISTRICT. 



Our Society's collection of snakes has been enriched by a specimen of 

 this rare snake sent by Mr. W. L. Travers among many interesting species 

 collected in the Jalpaiguri District. The species was described in 1863 

 from a specimen obtained at Rungpore which is preserved in the Copen- 

 hagen Museiun. A second specimen is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 and was found at Purneah. The Jalpaiguri specimen is the third known. 

 I have examined the last two specimens, and have notes furnished me by 

 the Superintendent of the Copenhagen Museum on the type specimen, so 

 that I feel justified in giving further details of the species. The Jalpaiguri 

 specimen may be described as follows : Length 2 feet 6 inches, tail 5 inches. 

 Ventrals 213. Anal entire. Subcaudals 62, divided. Costals two heads- 

 lengths from head 20, midbody 15, two headslengths before vent 15 ; the 

 rows become 19, about two headslengths behind the head and reduce to 

 17 ; three headslengths behind the head by a fusion of the 3rd and 4th rows 

 above the ventrals ; they further reduce to 15 by a fusion of the two rows 

 next to the-vertebrals on each side, about four to four-and-a-half heads- 

 lengths behind the head ; vertebrals are very distinctly enlarged, the 

 breadth being subequal to the length, and as broad as the last row of 

 costals ; the scales other than those in the vertebral and ultimate rows 

 are slightly oblique and smooth. 



Rostral. — Large, touches 6 shields, the rostro-internasal sutures being 

 as long as the other two sutures taken together. Internasals. — The suture 

 between them equal, the inter-prsefrontal suture about three-fifths the 

 internaso-prjBfrontals. Prcefrontals. — The suture between them is about 

 two-thirds the prsefronto-frontal suture ; touch the internasal, postnasal, 

 loreal, prseocular and supraocular. Frontal. — Touches 6 shields, the prte- 

 f ronto-frontal sutures rather longest, the prtefronto-parietals rather shortest. 



