Proceedings. 



191 



Contributions. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



Eggs of Common Heron ... 



Eggs of Large Egret 



Eggs of Great Stone Plover. 



Eggs of Purple Coot 



Eggs of Seesee Partridge ... 



Eggs of Laggar Falcon 



1 Screech Owl (alive) 



1 Skink 



1 Grass Snake 



1 Water Snake 



2 Tree Vipers 



1 Brown Tree Snake 



1 Lizard 



1 Great Slaty-backed Wood- 

 pecker. 



1 Tickell's Golden-backed 

 Woodpecker. 



1 Northern Rufous Wood- 

 pecker. 



1 Indian Grackle 



1 Black-bellied Tern ... 



1 Phoorsa 



A number of Scorpions.., 



1 Snake 



Specimens of New Zealand 

 Woods. 



1 Large Photograph of an 

 Elephant. 



Ardea cinerea 



Herodias alba , 



Esacias recurviros trig , 



Porphrio poUocephalus , 



Ammoperdix bonhami , 



Falco jug gar , 



Strix flammea 



Calcides ocellatus , 



Tropidnnotus stolatus 



Do. piscator 



Trimeresurus gramineus 



Dipsas ceylonensis 



Hemid actylus %^ 



Hemilophus pulverulentug .. 



Chrysocolapteg gutticris- 



tatus. 

 Micropternus phmceps 



Eiilalys intermedia , 



Sterna melanogaster 



Eehis carinata .., 



Contia angusticeps 



Dr. 6. McMullen. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Mr. R.iF. Smith.- 

 Mr. A. Baglehole. 

 Mr. Paul Girhardt. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Mr. C. B. Smales. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Mr. H. Bulkley. 



Do. 

 Major A. H. McMahon. 

 Mr. E. L. Barton. 



Mr. E. R. Jardine. 



There were minor contributions from Messrs, H. D, McLaughlin, E, 

 O'Brien, C. F. Spencer, W. Gonsalves, G. E. Bright, Marshall Keid, and D. A. 

 MacMillan. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



" Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France," 1900 ; " The Structure and 

 Life History of the Harlequin Fly" (from Mr. L. C. Miall) ; "Annuaire du 

 Mus^e Zoologique de St. Petersburg " ; " Boletin del Institute Geologico de 

 Mexico " ; " Botanical Notes and Papers " by Major D. Prain, T.M.S. ; 

 " Transactions of the Entomological Society of London," 1900 ; "Memoirs of 

 the Geological Survey of India " ; " Researches on the Past and Present His- 

 tory of the Earth's Atmosphere," by Dr. T. L. Phipson ; " Indian Deep Sea 

 Crustaceans '' ; " Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniza," Pt. I., 

 Vol. I. 



SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



With reference to the announcement made at the meeting on 16th April 

 last regarding the Society for the Protection of Birds, efforts are now being 

 made to secure the sympathy and support of the members of the Bombay 

 Natural History Society to the movement. Mr. E. Comber has been appoint- 

 ed local Secretary of the Indian Branch, to whom subscriptions may be 



