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VI.— A NEST OF KING COBRA'S EGGS. 

 {Naia bungarus.) 



It may be of interest to some of our members to hear how I obtained the 

 eggs of the above deadly snake. Information was brought to me that a path 

 into a village situated some 3 or 4 mUes from here, was closed owing to a large 

 and deadly snake having taken up his quarters close by the side of it. My 

 informant also told me that the snake had made a gadi, upon the top of which 

 it was sitting. This morning I went out to have a look at it, and sure enough 

 within two yards of the path was a heap of dried leaves and on the top of them 

 the snake. The head seemed to be down in the leaves, but two coils were 

 visible. After throwing a few stones at the heap, one of which hit the snake, 

 it erected its head and on seeing us distended the hood, when I fired and kUled it. 

 The eggs, thirty-three in number, we found at the bottom of the heap. I opened 

 one to see the state of the embryo, which I found in an early state of develop- 

 ment, but still the young snake was formed and could be seen breathing. 



Thfi snake whieh I killed had a good deal more yellow on the under sm-face 

 of the head and neck than on e which 1 shot last Sunday ; it was also rather 

 smaller, measuring only 9 feet 8 inches. The jungles, in which the two snakes 

 were shot, Avere, I should say, 6 miles apart. 



GEOEGE K. WASEY. 



Castle Eock, 22nd May, 1892. 



PEOCEEDINGS. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING HELD ON 5th APRIL, 1893. 



The uaual monthly meeting of the members of this Society took place on Tuesday 

 last, the 5th April, Mr. G. W. Terry presiding. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Society : — ■ 



Lord Dormer (England); Mr. H. R. P. Carter, C.E. (Madras) ; Lieutenant E. G. 

 Farquharson, R.E. (Bombay); Mr, M, P. Kharegat, C.S. (Broach); Major Aberigh- 

 Mackay (Nowgong) ; The Hon'ble W. T. O'Brien (Bombay) ; Captain W. H, Hunter 

 (Nagpore) ; Dr. Esmael Jan Mahomed (Bombay) ; Lieutenant R. J. Spurrell (Nagpore) ; 

 Mr. W. Sutherland (Bombay) ; Mr. H. Godwin-Austen (Akola) ; Dr. John Polleu, O.S. 

 (Bombay) ; Mr. Thos. H. Storer (Oodeypore) ; Mr.Mirza Abbas Ali Baig, C.S. (Tanua); 

 Dr. Ratanjee Rustomjee Dadina (Kalian) ; Dr. Framroz Ardesir Moos (Tanna); 

 Mr. Maneksha Dhaujisha (Tanna); and Doctor G. B. Prabhakar (Bombay). 



Mr. n. M. Phipsou acknowledged the following contributions to the Society's 

 collectioua :— 



