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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVII. 



No. 1. 



Page 

 The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 



XXIX. By E. C. Stuart Baker, f.l.s., f.z.s., m.b.o.u. 



(with a coloured plate of Galloperdix bicalcarata, The 



Ceylon Spur Fowl) i 



Scientific Results from the Mammal 'Survey, By Oldtield 



Thomas, f.r.s 25 



No. XXII. — A new Bat of the genus Rhinopoma from 



S. E. Persia 25 



The Common Butterflies of the Plains of India. Part 



XXV. By T. R. Bell, c.i.e., i.f.s. (retired) 26 



The Past and Present distribution of the Lion in South- 

 eastern Asia. By N. B. Kinnear, c.m.z.s 33 



The Flora of the Indian Desert (Jodhpur and Jaisal- 

 mer). Part V. By Rev. E. Blatter, s.j., and Professor 

 F. Hallberg 40 



Indian Dragonflies. Part VII (with Text-ligures). By 



Major F. C. Eraser, i.m.s 48 



Summary of the Results from the Indian Mammal Survey 



OF THE Bombay Natural History Society. Part VI. 



By R. C. Wroughton, f.z.s 57 



Notes on Indian Butterflies. By Lt.-Col. W. H. Evans, 



F.z.s., F.E.S., r.e 86 



Further notes on Birds about Simla. By Hugh Whistler, 



F.z.s., m.b.o.u., c.f.a.o.u 91 



The Power of Scent in Wild Animals. By E. C. Stuart 



Baker, f.z.s., f.l.s., m.b.o.u 112 



Some South Indian Batrachians. {With two Plates). By C. 



R. Narayan Rao, m.a 11^ 



The Birds of Prey of the Punjab. Part V. By C. H. 



Donald, f.z.s ^^^ 



