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Fig. 11. — Bunffarus csruleus. 



Dirnensions. — Specimens over 4 feet are rare. Captain Paterson, 

 I.M.S., wrote to me of one he killed in Lahore measuring 4 feet 6 

 inches. Major 0. A. Smith reported one (Bom. N. H. Jourl., 

 Vol. XXI, page 284) which was 4 feet 6| inches in length. Dr. 

 Annandale speaking of this same specimen which was killed , in 

 Hazaribagh says, in spirit it had shrunk to 4 feet 4<\ inches. 1 have 

 measured a dry skin of a specimen killed at Bannu, N. W. Frontier, 

 which was 4 feet 6 inches. 



