556 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NA TURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol, VITI. 
Now the Cuban bees, whether themselves indigenous, or, as is more proba- 
ble, naturalized European bees, have learnt to do the fertilizing for their 
masters, and given a great impulse to the cultivation, The other countries 
which have been producing vanilla by artificial fertilization must, if this is 
the case, either use bees too—or be undersold. — 
W. F. SINCLAIR, 1.0.8, 
TANNA, lst March, 1894. 
No, IX.—THE BUTTERFLIES OF MATHERAN. 
I notice in the last number of the Society’s Journal a list of the butterflies 
of Matheran. It is some years since I have been there, and I do not remember 
accurately all I have caught there. I, however, certainly have caught there 
both Lethe europa, Fabricius, and Apatura camiba, Moore, These might, there- 
fore, be added to the Matheran list. 
J. DAVIDSON, I.C8, 
Kanara District, 7th March, 1894, 
No. X.—BREEDING SEASON OF THE SPOTTED-BILLED DUCK. 
Vet.-Maj. G. F. Rayment «asks on p. 442 of the Society’s Journal (Vol. 
VIII, No. 3) if any one has noticed how late the spotted-billed duck, Anas 
Pecilorhyncha, breeds. I have shot flappers of this species in the Kod taluka 
of the Dharwar district, about ten miles from the northern frontier of Mysore, 
in the middle of November. They were very nearly full-grown; but the 
remiges, or flight-feathers (quills), had not developed. 
C. HUDSON, 1.C.8. 
Camp BassEIN, 14th March, 1894. 
No. XI.—COLD-WEATHER SHOOTING IN RAIPUR. 
When I saw the Honorary Secretary in October last and told him that I was 
going to pass the cold weather in camp in the Kaipur jungles, he said, “ You 
will have lots to tell us for the Magazine ;” the result has not come up to the 
anticipation ; in the first place I have have had to contend with much bad 
luck and much fever. As I have been in camp, with the exception of about 
fifteen days, in Raipur from the 1st November to the 1st March, I may consider 
this period as the cold weather. 
A correspondent in the Pioneer lately said that tigers jostled each other in 
Raipur ; this is theory ; from the 7th November to the 20th December I had 
garahs out in every direction ; I did not have a single kill from a tiger, and 
only one from a panther ; I left my garahs down for several days, and I did 
not shift camp very frequently, to show on what sort of lines I worked ; 
lately a friend (whose camp was about 8 miles from mine) and myself had about 
