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this time I distinctly saw the sting go in once, twice, three times, the poor 
spider making but feeble resisiance and, unable to bite her enemy, lay still at 
Jength writhing a little. Then for a minute or so Salius danced her dance of 
triumph, parading round her prey ina quick jerky sort of walk, flirting her 
Wings and quivering her antenne, Finally,she approached the comatose, if 
not dead, spider and deliberately bit off the long strong legs. Then, half 
flying with it and anon dragging it along the ground, she conveyed her 
shikar to her nest, which was excavated at the foot of a large padouk tree 
(Pterocarpus indicus) about fifty yards from my tent. Here she disappeared, 
and I had little difficulty in finding the entrance to her burrow. Placing my 
butterfly net over its mouth, I waited. In about five minutes out she came and 
I bottled her, Then I dug up her nest and found the bodies of no less than 
five Galeodes, all deprived of their legs and all with a single egg attached to 
the fur on the underside of their stomachs. So far as I could make out all 
the spiders were quite dead, except the last caught which still moved feebly 
when touched. As I said above, I timed the fight I have described. From 
the time I saw the wasp looking for the spider to the time the latter He 
moribund, having its legs sawed off, was exactly thirty-five minutes, 
C. T. BINGHAM, 
Manpanay, 19th October, 1899. Conservator of Forests. 
NO, 1.—A VARIETY OF THE COMMON MYNA, ACRIDOTHERES 
TRISTIS, LINN. 
To-day my man brought me in a variety of this species in peculiar plumage. 
i append a description :—Head, neck and upper breast white, slightly tinged 
with pale primrose yellow, one or two blackish feathers on lores, round the 
eye, on the ear coverts ; lower plumage vinous brown as in the usual form ; 
abdomen and lower tail coverts white ; the thighs and their coverts mixed with 
white ; upper plumage mixed brown and white ; rectrices black tipped white ; 
median pair white with a hard terminal band black and also tipped with 
white ; primaries blackish with the bases white, secondaries and inner secon- 
daries vinous brown; primary and median coverts white, Colours of soft parts, 
bill, orbital skin, eyelids, legs, feet and claws, yellow ; inside mouth fleshy, 
The irides were damaged with shot, so it was impossible to state their colour, 
There is also a sooty band below the white of the upper breast. The 
inner secondaries are both brown and white, the abdomen is white tinged 
with vinous, On dissection the specimen proved to be female, 
Unfortunately this bird was still moulting and so the plumage is not yery 
good, It was shot in company with another of the usual form. My man 
had seen it here for several days, but whenever he brought out his gun it 
used to disappear ; other people it did not seem to mind, feeding close to their 
houses on the grain spread out to dry. C. M. INGLIS. 
JAINAGAR Factory, MapHuUBANI, 28th September, 1899, 
