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CONTENTS 



or THE NATURAL HISTORY PART (PT. TI.) OF THE 



JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL FOR 1877. 



No. 1, (issued May 12th, 1877). On Himalayan Glaciation. — By 

 J. F. Campbell. — Note on the preceding Paper. — By H. B. Medli- 

 COTT. — List of the Mollusca brought hade by Dr. J. Anderson, f7'om Yun- 

 nan and Upper Burma, ivith Descriptions of new Species. — By G. Neyill. 

 — Descriptions of three neio species of Birds of the Genera Pellorneum, 

 Actinura, and Pomatorhinus ; lately collected in the neighbourhood of Sad- 

 dya, Assam, by Mr. M. J. Oole, of the Topographical Survey. — By H. 

 H. Godwin- ArsTEN. — Note on the Variation of the Barometric Tides in 

 connexion icith Diurnal Land and Sea-Breezes. — By Henry F. Blanford 

 (with two Woodcuts). 



No. 2, (issued July 30th, 1877). Contributions towards a Knowledge 

 of the Burmese Flora. — By S. KuRZ. 



No. 3, (issued December 27th, 1277). On an apparently undescribed 

 Weasel from Yarkand. — By W. T. Blanford. — Description of some new 

 and little knoion Asiatic Shrews in the Indian Iluseum, Calcutta. — By John 

 Anderson. — Notes on the Mammalian Fauna of the Wardwdn and Upper 

 Chindh Valleys. — By R. Lydekker. — On the Metdd Bat (Goluiida Mel- 

 tada, Qrey) with a note on Gobmda Ellioti, (PI. I). — By W, T. Blan- 

 ford. — Record of the Occurrence of Earthquakes in Assam during the 

 years 1874, 1875, 1876. Communicated by Col. E,. H. ^Keatinge. — Notes 

 on a collection of Chiroptera from India and Burma, with description of 

 new species — By G. E. Dobson. — Description of Spiraculum Mastersi. — 

 By W. T. Blanford. 



No. 4, (issued April 20th, 1878). Note on two Species of Asiatic 

 Bears, the " Mamh^' of Baluchistan and Ursus pruinosus, Blyth, of Tibet, 

 and on an apparently undescribed Fox from Baluchistan. — By W. T. 

 Blanford. — On an apparently new BLare, and some other Mammalia from 

 Gilgit. — By W. T. Blanford. — On a supposed neiu Sheep from the Cen- 

 tral Hills of Kelat. — By A. O. Hume. — Catalogue of the recorded Cy- 

 clones in the Bay of Bengal up to the end of 1876 compiled by Henry F. 

 Blanford. — Memorandum in the diurnal Variation of Atmospheric Pres- 

 sure at the Sandheads. — By Chas. Harding-, with a prefatory note by 

 Henry F. Bla]sford. — Notes on Phasmid^je. — By J. Wood- Mason, 



