PROCEEDINGS. 451 
Contribution, Description. Contributor. 
1 Persian Gazelle (alive) ...|Gazella subgutturosa ......-..| Capt. Gimblett. 
1 Yellow-breasted Ground |Pitta prachyUura cecccsescrcece -| Mr. Douglas Bennett, 
Thrush (alive). 
i (SNARE cogonccacna6n oadao00ce sooee/SIMOLES TUSSEL]IL .2c.ccsceseeeee Mr, A. C. Walker. 
i} 1D®s  ceaccoanocadosn0 59000000000 Tropidonotus piscator......... Surg.-Capt. Knaggs, 
2 Snakes ............0+0.e-eeeeee(Ohersyurus etanulatus ......| Mr. H. W. Barrow. 
1 Snake.......... eqnogooosnccacdd Tropidonotus stolatus......... Do. 
1] [Spent IEE ocoooccboode. eecce| DTOMCEUS ITTOTALUS .eccecccccce Mr. P, Churchward. 
il QIDIREN?  coaccgeacananonen 2005000 Pandion hanetus ...2.4 20:00 .| Mr. H. Bulkley. 
1 Golden - backed Wood-|Brachypternis aurantius...... Do. 
pecker. 
1 Crested Cuckoo 0.0. gooond0ee. Coccystes jacobinus .........00. Do. 
I {Sarees Cscadaoadanoaocdneddedo Astur badius ...scccccrccccccees Jo Do. 
1 Marsh Harrier ..........+e0- Circus KLUGINOSUS ....eeeeeeee Do. 
1 Indian Night-Jar.......0....|Caprimulgus asiaticus......00.« Mrs. Pearson. 
IL (SIM@IE coccadedqocacacadosacc0s00¢ Lycodon striatus ...........-.../ Mr. W. H. Traill. 
1 Flying Fox (alive) ......... PteropUs MEIUS ....ecccc.eso0e Mr. H. James. 
1 oie Water Hen|Hrythra phoenicura ......0« .-.-| Mr. P. HE. Myer. 
alive). 
1 Albino Jack Snipe ...... ...|Gallinage gallinula .......s02., Mr. C. H. B. Forbes. 
A Number of Sea Shells ...../From Karachi ..... Qonn ace 000000 Mr. G. Elton. 
A Collection of Sea Shells ...)From Madras ......,..06 3000000 Mr. P. Berry. 
2 Daboias (alive) -+...... .. eoe|Daboia elegans...ccccccccocse-a- Mr. P. R. Mehta, 
1 Snake Glive)..c...--.scecceee Silybura macrelepis..........+.| Mr. EH. W. Scott. 
MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM 
Miss Ida Prager, Mr. Aston, Mr. Brandenburg, Mr. W. Jackson, Mr. J. Stiven, 
Mr. G. de Bildt, Major W.P. Kennedy, Mr. V. Cabral, Mr. A. L. Pilleau, 
and Mr. F. Chard. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 
Field and Garden Crops of the N.-W. P. and 
OETA UDC) Ge eA ce } From Bie dla To NGI 
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, \ From Mr. W. F. Sinclair, 
ACLS leer ta cle TWIG ee ce cmnneeesassecc soc elaci<mcneese C.S. 
The Prairie Ground Squirrels ..........0«sceccsess Beeeon From Mr, Vernon Bayley, 
The Dictionary of Economic Products of India 
(VG: Ween ae cea ae eee {rom Government: 
PAPERS READ, 
The following papers were then read :— 
1, Notes on Sambar and Sambar Shooting, by J. D. Inverarity. 2, 
Notes on some of the Butterflies of Matheran, by J. A. Betham. 3, Miscella- 
neous Notes—(a) O Pao da Cobra, or ‘“‘ Serpent’s Wood,” by Dr. D. G. 
Dalgado ; (+) The Nest of Stewart's Wren Warbler, by G. W. Vidal, I.C.S. : 
(c) The Kol Bhalu, by F. J. A. Hill; (@), Symptoms of Snake-bite, the result 
of fright, by Mr. 8. M. Fraser, I.C.S. ; (¢) Ihe Breeding of the Gourami, by 
Charles F. Gilbert, M.I.C.E, ; (/) The flowering of “ Grammatophyllum brom- 
headii,” by F. E. Dempster. 
