CONTENTS OF VOLUME XA 



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List of Office Bearers i 



List of Members ii 



Statement of Account for the year 1897 xxv 



Indian Ducks and THBm Allies. Part I. {With Plate I.) By E. 0. 



Stuart Baker, f.z.s., m.b.o.u. , 1 



The Butterflies of the North Canara District of the 

 Bombay Presidency. Part IV. {With Plates VII and VIII.) 

 By J. Davidson, T. R. Bell, and E. H. Aitken ... 22 



Birds' Nesting in the Tons Valley. Part I. By B. B. Osmaston. 



Indian Forest Department 64 



A New Krait from Sind (Bungarus sjndanus.) {With a Plate.) 



By G. A. Boulenger, f.r.s 73 



A List of the Birds of Aden. By Ool. J. W. Yerbury 75 



Birds collected during five years' residence in the Hyla- 

 kandy District, Cachar. Part IIT. By 0. M. Inglis ... 77 



Plants of a Bombay Swamp. By G. Marshall Woodrow 88 



The Burmese Goat-antelope, or Serow. (With a Plate.) By 



Veterinary-Captain G. H. Evans 95 



Descriptions of some new species of Scorpions from India. By 



E. I. Pocock, of the British Museum of Natural History 102 



The Flora of Western India. Part I. By G. Marshall Woodrow, 



Lecturer in Botany, College of Science, Poona 118 



Some Land and Fresh- water Shells collected in the Island 

 ■of Bombay. Part I. By A. J. Peile, r.a 131 



List of Birds in the Gwalior State Museum, collected in the 

 Gwalior State. By C. Maries, f.l.s., Curator ... 136 



Proceedings 141 



