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Forests, Assam. The horns are exceedingly massive, and one pair measures 10' 6" 

 from tip to tip, outside measurement. The British India Steam Navigation Company 

 had very kindly brought the horns round from Calcutta, free of charge. 



A CURIOUS EXHIBIT. 



Mr. W. P.Sinclair, C.S., the Collector of Tanua, exhibited a large tiger's skin 

 together with the arrows with which the animal had been killed by natives in the 

 Tanna District. The whole of the carcase had been withdrawn through the aperture 

 of the mouth, very slightly enlarged, and the entire skin had then been stuffed with, 

 dry grass, producing a very grotesque appearance. 



ALTERATION OF THE RULES. 



In accordance with .the notice given at the last meeting, the Honorary Secretary 

 explained that the cost of producing the Journal was now so large that the Society 

 could not afford to sell extra copies at the rate of Re. 1-4, as laid down in Rule No. 8. 

 A copy of the Journal would still be supplied to every member /j-ee of cost and of postage 

 so long as he resided in India and paid the full subscription, but the selling price of 

 extra copies would have to be considerably increased. It was resolved that the last 

 sentence of Rule No. 8 should in future read as follows : — " Members shall also be 

 entitled to purchase back numbers of the Journal at a discount of 33| per cent." 



THE BLACK-TAILED ROCK-CHAT. 



Lieutenant H. E. Barnes read a short note on the Black-tailed Rock-Chat 

 (Oercomela melanura). He stated that Jerdon's sole authority for including this 

 species in his Birds of India appears (o have been that among the drawings of Sir 

 A. Burnes was a sketch of this bird, procured by him in Sind, but its existence there 

 has been doubted by Hume, who assumed that the sketch was made from a specimen 

 of the Red-tailed Wheat-ear. Lieutenant Barnes stated that he had found the bird 

 in large numbers at Aden, and that he considered it not at all unlikely that a few 

 specimens may occasionally wander as far east as Sind. 



HORSE-BaEEUING IN INDIA. 



The Honorary Secretary read an important paper on'the above subject by Veterinary 

 Captain G. Rayment, A. Y. D. 



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