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informants was the short period they considered the species to be away from 
the neighbourhood, They said it was absent only during three months—Apri] 
May and June—but I had no opportunity of verifying this statement, and, as 
with the name given to me for the species, do not place much faith in the 
information, 
From Mr. Baker’s remarks I gather that he considers the Golden-eye to be 
a chance visitor to the Indus Valley, and that he looks on Dr. Stoker’s sug- 
gestion of its being a regular cold-weather visitant as incorrect. In this I 
cannot agree with him, and in my opinion it is a regular and by no means 
uncommon cold-weather visitor to the River Indus above Attock. 
The Chach Plain is easy of access from Campbellpore, Attock and Rawal 
Pindi, and I suspect that anybody visiting it (during the cold weather) in 
search of the Golden-eye will find his quest as near a certainty as any piece 
of shikar can be. 
J. W. YERBURY, Lieot,-Co., R.A. 
Army AND Navy Cuus, 
Lonvon, May, 1900, 
No, VIIL—NOTES ON A DIPSAS MULTIMACULATA 
IN CAPTIVITY. 
On the 10th April, I had two live specimens of Dipsas multimaculata 
brought to me, full-grown and unscathed. 
They were found together—one coiled in a depression of the ground 
beneath a small lime bush ; the other in the lower branches of the same 
bush, a few inches away, probably courting. On examination, I found the 
larger of the two palpably gravid in the hinder parts. Both were put 
together in the same cage, but on the morning only one was to be seen. 1 
examined the cage most carefully, and satisfied myself that there was no 
possible means of escape [and since this event I have kept several snakes, 
and smaller ones, in the same cage with no similar occurrence], The only 
inference was that one had devoured the other, and, as luck would have it, 
the pregnant specimen remained. 
Her interesting condition forbade my investigating the truth of my 
suspicions, - : 
She lay coiled on the floor in one corner of her box for several days, and, 
on the 19th April, deposited the first of a total of seven eggs which were 
laid as follows :— 
Ist, between 9-30 a.m, and 4-30 p.m., 19th April. 
2nd, 3 10-15 a.m. ard 2 p.m., 20th . 
3rd and 4th, between 2 p.m, and 4-30 p.m,, 20th April, 
5th, night of 20th April. 
6th, between 7 a.m. and 8-30 a.m., 21st April, 
7th, night of 21st April. 
