562 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL AISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. Vill. 
The only poisonous snake I saw was one very large cobra, which suddenly 
appeared out of a white-ants’ nest at the foot of a tree, round which a number 
of men were sitting ; luckily it was slain before any harm was done. It seems 
strange to me that so many natives cannot discriminate between a harmless and 
poisonous snake ; they seem to know as little about what must be an only too 
common object as if they had never seen asnake before. Having now 
descended from unavoidable and constantly regretted circumstances to the 
status of a globe-troter, I have committed my three months’ experiences 
to paper. I, however, have not investigated the drink question except when 
my shikari has got drunk, nor the currency question except in one particular, 
which is that, when you pay your beaters two annas each, this two annas 
cannot be converted into food, drink, or raiment except at the rate of one anna 
three pies ; in fact the current coin of the realm in Raipur and in most other 
places is copper. 
I was asked to notice any particular breed of dogs which I might come across, 
but I have not seen anything except the ordinary “Pie.” By the way, what 
is the meaning of “ Pie’? Ihave, however, been puzzling over the reason 
that so many of them have tails curled round like a pug ora Chinese dog, &c, 
I should have thought that, semi-wild creatures that they are, their tails would 
droop. The colour of pies asa rule seems to be for the many yellow, for the 
few black and tan. Isaw about three black ‘‘ Pies.” I came across a very good 
black and tan dog of sporting proclivities, and evidently, from the sleekness 
of his coat, well looked after, but still unmistakeably a pie. 
. E. F. BECHER. 
Bosna, March, 1894. 
4 No. XII.—ANNELIDE REEFS. 
Tam forwarding to youa couple of specimens of the Annelide Reefs of 
Kelve Mahim in the Tanna District. 
All along the west coast, north of the Waitarna River, the coarse debris 
brought down by numerous local streams and torrents, with the sand of the 
Arabian Sea, and the finer silts and sands washed out of the Gulf of Cambay, 
are forming recent deposits over the (probably) Tertiary basalt, of very various 
quality. 
The muddy character of the water is probably unfavourable for the growth 
of corals. But the place of these seems to some extent to be taken by tubi- 
colous Annelides, probably of, or allied to, the genus Serpula, which are really 
here reef builders, though not to be compared in degree with the masons of 
the “ massive corals.” 
The specimens forwarded will easily enable you to understand that their 
productions are here used in construction and have even, in Portuguese times, 
been used in fortification. 
W. F. SINCLAIR, LCS. 
TaNNA DistRIcT, March, 1894. 
