138 BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIBTY, 
Many writers on the subject refer to the double oviducts, which are apparent on 
dissection, but the Rev. Fr. Dreckmann appears to have been the first to notice 
and record the remarkable simultaneous twin parturition of this species of scorpion, 
The subject is one of the greatest interest, not only for the naturalist, but to the 
physiologist, and it is to be hoped that other members of this Society will contri- 
bute the result of their observations. 
Mr. Lionel de Nicéville, F. E.S., has obtained from Mr. J. Wood-Mason, the 
Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, tbe following interesting note on 
the simultaneous viviparous twin parturition of the Black Rock Scorpion :— 
“ Nothing, so far as I know or can discover, having been placed on record about 
the parturition of scorpions, I cannot say whether the twin births you have observed 
are usual or unusual. Such a poimt indeed is only to be settled by a multitude of 
observations of the same kind as that which you are about to record; but whether 
they are the rule or only occasionally happen, would be readily explained by the 
bilateral symmetry of the genital organs, by the development of the embryos in 
pairs, and by the symmetrical action of the muscular mechanism of parturition. 
That scorpions bring forth living young, and do not lay eggs, has been, I need 
hardly say, long (more than fifty years) known to science.” 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE PROTECTION OF GAME. 
Tun President of the Ahmedabad Municipality having asked the Bombay 
Natural History Society for an opinion as to what game birds and animals should 
he protected in the neighbourhood of Ahmedabad, under Act 20 of 1887, the 
following answer has been sent in reply :-— 
From the Honorary Secretary, Natural History Society, Bombay ; 
To the President, Ahmedabad Municipality. , 
Bombay, 28th April, 1888. 
Dzar Sir,— I duly received your letter No. 248 of 3rd inst., and have laid the 
same before the Committee of the Society, who have expressed their opinion that 
any Act for the local protection of game, in order to be effective, should be as 
simple as possible. 
They are of opinion that game in the neighbourhood of Ahmedabad would be 
sufficiently protected if it were made illegal for any one (not being a cultivator) to 
be in possession of game, living or dead, between the 15¢h of June and the Lbth of 
October (unless, of course, the possessor could prove that it came into his keeping 
prior to the 15th June). 
An exception should be made in favour of cultivators of the soil, who might be 
allowed to kill such animals and birds as are destructive to crops; but game so 
destroyed should not be offered for sale. 
I attach a list of the game birds and animals which, in the opinion of the 
Committee, should be protected. You will observe that the Grey Partridge and 
Grouse have been included in this list, although they both breed much earlier. 
The above is the opinion of the Committee of the Society as regards the preserva- 
tion of game, but I am requested to add that, as naturalists, the Committee would 
be glad to see all birds protected during the rains (#. e., 15th June to 15th Octo- 
ber).— Yours, &c., H. M. Purirson, 
Honorary Secretary. 
