556 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. VIII. 



Now the Guban 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, I.C.S. 



Tanna, 1st 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.O.S, 

 Kanaka District, 1th March, 1894. 



No. X.— BREEDING SEASON OF THE SPOTTED-BILLED DUCK. 



Vet.-Maj. G. F. Eayment .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 

 Paecilorhyncha, 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, I.C.S. 



Camp Bassein, Uth 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 Raipur 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 



