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4. — The Destractiveness of Bandicoot Rats ... ... 97 



5.— The Pisa Tree and the Indian Willow ... 99 



6.— A Stranded Dolphin 100 



7. — A Tiger eating a Bear ... 101 



8.— Food of the White-eyed Buzzard 101 



9.— The Strychnine Tree ... ... 102 



10. — The Poisonous Plants of Bombay 105 



11. — South African Snakes 106 



12. — Eivpodotis edwardsii 107 



13. — A Panther smoked to Death in a Cave ... 107 



14. — Muscular Action after Death ... 108 



Correspondence 108 



Proceedings 109 



The Birds of North Cachar. Part III. {With Plate C.) By 



E. C. Stuart Baker, f.z.s Ill 



The Poisonous Plants of Bombay. PartX. {With Plates L and 

 Supplementary L.) By Surgeon-Major E. R. Kirtikar, i.m.s., 



f.l.s., Acting Professor of Botany, Grant Medical College 147 



Mule-Breeding. By Veterinary-Major G. J. R. Rayment, late Supdt., 



CivU Veterinary Dept., N.-W. P. and Oudh 177 



A Note on Birds from Central India in Barnes's Handbook. By 



W. T. Blanford 185 



Notes on the Nidification of certain Birds, the Nests of which 

 . have not been previously recorded from india. by b. b. 



Osmaston ... 190 



The Four-horned Antelope {Tetracerus quadricornis). (With Plate B.) 



By J. D. Inverarity „. ... 198 



Review. Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea 194 



A Botanical Tour in Sikkim. By G. A. Gammie ... ... ... 197 



Extracts from an Account of Tours along the Malabar Coast. 



By Edgar Thurston, c.m.z.s.. ... 217 



Miscellaneous Notes — 



1. — Hybrid Francolins 223 



2.— Nesting of the Brown Fly-catcher 223 



3. — Notes as to how Tigers kill 224 



4. — A Curious Instance of Melanism 224 



