338 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. X. 



Contribution. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



1 Flamingo 



1 Wood Snipe 



1 Snake 



1 Sucker Fish 



1 Black-necked Stork 



1 Snake Bird 



2 Leaf Insects from the 



Seychelles (alive). 



1 Sparrow Hawk (alive) 



1 Pale Harrier 



1 Black-thr oated Wood 

 Partridare. 



Phoenicopterus antiquorum 



Grallinago nemoricola , 



Zamenis diadema 



Echeneis albescens 



Mycteria australis 



Plotus melanogaster 



Pbyllium scythe 



Accipiter nisus 



Circus macrurus 



Arboricola atrogularis 



Mr. Douglas Bennett. 

 Mr. Thomas H. Moore. 

 Sur.-Capt. W. Ricketts. 

 Mr. A. Corrodi. 

 Mr. N. S. Symons. 



Do. 

 Capt. Whitehead. 



Mr. J. Brand. 



Do. 

 Lt. H. A. D. Fraser, R.E. 



CONTEIBUTIONS TO THE LIBEARY. 

 Description of Indian Squillidas (Wood-Mason), from Indian Museum ; the 

 Spiders of Burmah (Thorell), from Mr. 13. W. Gates ; the Movements of the 

 Kosi Eiver, from Mr, F, A. Shillingford, Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London, Parts I, II, and III, from Mr. W. F. Sinclair ; the Flora 

 of Ceylon, Tol, YIII, from Dr. Trimen ; the Birds of India, Vol. Ill, from 

 Mr. W. T, Blanford ; Back Numbers of our journal, from Mr. L, Penny ; the 

 Flowering Plants and Ferns of N. S, Wales, from Mr, J. H. Maiden ; and 

 Report on the Experimental Farm at Poona, from Government, 



PAPERS READ, 



The folio-wing papers, which were then read and discussed, will appear in 

 the next number of the Society's Journal : — 1, The Flora of Matheran and 

 Mahableshwar, by tlie Hon, Mr, Birdwood, 2. Ornithological Notes from 

 Cocoawatte, Ceylon, by A, L, Butler, 3. Sea Shells collected at Aden, by 

 Captain E, R, Shopland, E.I,M, 4, The Butterflies of the North Canara 

 District, by J, Davidson, I,C.S,, T, R, Bell, and E, H, Aitken, 5. Description 

 of a New Indian Snake, by G. A, Boulenger. 6, Indian ChryskUdce by 

 Yicomte Robert du Buysson. 7, Miscellaneous Notes, (a) Bison in Kamptee 

 Iby Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel S, Banks, (h) The Giant Orchis, by 

 E, M, Dixon, (c) A Leporine^ Monstrosity, by A. L, Butler, (d) Red Ants 

 used as Smelling Salts, by A. L, Butler, 



A vote of thanks was passed to Mr, Birdwood for his valuable paper and 

 interesting remarks. 



