CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



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The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part XI. 

 {With Plate XL) The Coronetted Sand-Grouse. By 



E. 0. Stuart Baker, f.l.s., f.z.s., m.b.o.u 427 



Scientific Results from the Mammal Survey. V. By- 

 Kathleen V. Ryley /. 434 



The Palms of British India and Ceylon, Indigenous and 

 Introduced. Part IX. {With Plates XLIX to LVI, 

 and text-figure 29.) By E. Blatter, S.j 444 



The Bombay Natural History Society's Mammal Sur- 

 vey of India. Report No. 10 (Kathiawar) and 

 Report No. 11 (Coorg). By Kathleen V. Ryley 464 



Some New Snakes from the Oriental Region. By 



F. Wall, I.M.S., c.m.z.s 514 



The Common Butterflies of the Plains of India. Part 



XV. {With Plates K and L.) By T. R. Bell, i.f.s.... 517 

 The Birds of Gorakhpur. By A. E. Osmaston, i.f.s 532 



A Popular Treatise on the Common Indian Snakes. Part 

 XX continued. {With Pla.tes A and B and Diagram.) 

 The Cobra. By Major F. Wall, i.m.s., c.m.z.s 550 



Plants of the Punjab. Part XII. By Colonel C. J. 



Bamber, f.l.s. ..'. 569 



A List of Butterflies collected by Captain F. M. Bailey 

 in Western China, South-Eastern Tibet and the 

 MiSHMi Hills, 1911. By Richard South {Continued). 598 



Progress of the Mammal Survey of India, Burma and 



!H ffCEYLON 616 



JVTlSCELLANEOUS NoTES : — 



I. — Tiger taking off carcase of Sloth Bear [Melwsus 



ursinus). By 0. R. Pitman 619 



II.— A Porcupine.— Tiger Tragedy. By G. E. C. Wakefield 619 



III. — Notes on the habits of the small Indian Mungoose 



{Mungos awopuvctatus). By. J. E. Powell 620 



IV. — Hedgehogs in Gujarat. By E. A. Montgomery (320 



V. — Photograph of a Wild Gaur {Bibos gaurus). By A. 



A. Dunbar Brander 621 



VI.— Record Cheetal (Atis «.m) head. By S. J. Martin... 622 



