CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



PAGE. 



The Birds of North Cachar. By E. C. Stuart Baker. Part lY. 



{With Plate D) 1 



On New and Little-known Lepidoptera. By Lionel de Niceville, 



F.E.s., c.M.z.s,, &c. {With Plates R, S, and T) 18 



The Indian Wild Buffalo. By J. D, Inverarity. {With Plates 



A, B, and G) 41 



Shooting Ovis polU on the Pamirs. By Baron Edmond de Poncins. 



{With a Plate) ,.......«« 53 



Field Notes with the Chitral Eelief Force. By Major W. St. 



J. Richardson, F.z.s 63 



List of Snakes taken in Travancore from 1888 to 1895, By 



H. S. Ferguson, F.L.s .., 68 



Notes on the Tsaing or Banting, Bos. sondaicus. By Veterinary- 



(-aptain G. H. Evans. {W^th a Plate) 78 



Further Notes on Man-eating Tigers, By Reginald Gilbert 83 



The Poisonous Plants of Bombay. By Surgeon-Major K. R. 



Kirtikar, i.m.s., f.l.s. Part XIII. {With Plate 0) 88 



Notes on some Birds from the Ruby Mesies District, Burma. 



By Eugene W. Gates 108 



The Rendering of Animals Immune against the Yenom of the 



Cobra and other Serpents. By Thomas R. Fraser, m.d,, 



LL.D., F.B.S * 11;^ 



Dried Locusts as Food for Cage and Game Birds. By Dr. A. 



Giinther and E. C, Cotes 124 



Wild Dogs. By " Robin Hood " 127 



Elephant-capturing Operations on the Anaimalai Hills. By 



H. B. Bryant — .. 133 



The Fruit Culture on the Himalaya • 136 



Concerning Fleas.... • 141 



Miscellaneous Notes — 



1. Crocodiles in artificial reservoirs. By H. W. Barrow 144 



2. Description of the transformations of Arrhopala Paramuta, deNiceville, 



a Lycasnid Butterfly. By G. 0. Dudgeon, f.e.s 144 



8. Description of the transformations of Badamia Exolamatiom, Fabricius, 



a Hesperid Butterfly. By G. 0. Dudgeon, F.E.s 144 



4. Notes on some Nilgiri Birds. By A. G. Cardew 146 



.5. The nesting of the Long-eared Owl (^Asio otus) in Jjidia. By Lieut. 



Bertram A. G. Shelley, K.E 149 



6. Measurement of Tigers' Skulls. By F. A. Hill 149 



7. The identification of Birds. By H. A. Hole 150 



3. The food of the Bull-frog. By D. Gostling, f.s.a 150 



9. The identification of Birds. By E. C. Stuart-Baker, F.z.s 151 



10. An Ant-lion up a tree. By A. E. Eyves 152 



11. A Turtle killing a Crocodile. By " Moidart " loS 



12. Leopard «ersMS Porcupine. By Major G. S. Kodon 154 



Proceedings 155 



