LIST OF PLATES. 



No 1 



Page 



The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. The Ceylon Spur-Fowl 



(Galloperdix hicalcarata) . . . . . . . . . , . . . . 1 



Some South Indian Batrachians {With two plates) — 



] . — An abnormal Rana tigrina . . . . . . . . . . 122 



Plate I. Fig. 1. — The pelvic girdle and the abnormal femur .. .. 126 



2. — The abnormal femur showing the tubercle and the 



ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 



3. — The third vertebra showing the tubercle on the dia- 



pophyses and the arcualium . . .. .. .. 127 



4. — The abnormal ilium with the forward cartilaginous 



extension • . . . . . . . • . . • 127 



5. — The pectoral girdle showing the forked left coro- 



coid and the keeled omosternum . . . . . . 127 



6 and 7.— Side views of the skull of the normal B. tig- 

 rina, showing the relation of the spheneth- 

 moid, the frontoparietal and the paras- 

 phenoid bones and their degrees of 

 development . . . • • • • • • • 127 



8. — Lower view of the skull shown ui Fig. 7. The 

 right vomer is removed to show the bony base 

 of the nasal capsule .. .. •• •• •• 1-^ 



2. Rana leptodactyla. 



Plate II. 9, 10 and 11.— Egg more than twice; tadpole twice; 



mouth more than four times magnified. 127 



3. NycfibatracMs. 



12, — N. sancti-palustris, s-p. nov. .. ^-' 



13. and 14.— The imder views of sandi-palnstris and 



modestus var. nov. respectively . . . . 12 / 

 I 5, 17 and 16, 18.— The hmd limb and the meta-tarsal 

 tubercle of sancti-palustris and 

 modestus respectively . . • • 127 



