1891 .] 
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Car Nicobar, 
Ltgodium flexgosum Swartz. 
Car Nicobar. 
ALG^. 
Sargassum ilicifolium Agardh was the only seaweed seen on 
Batti Malv. About a dozen seaweeds were obtained on Car Nicobar; 
they have not yet been determined. 
From the Proceedings, Asiatic Society of Bengal for April, 1892. 
1892.] 109 
3. Remarks on the Fauna of Narcondam and Barren Island.— By 
D. Brain. 
During a botanical visit to these two islands, the results of 
which are now being elaborated, the writer, though unable and 
indeed unqualified to devote much attention to their fauna, could not 
avoid coming in contact to some extent with their animal and insect 
life. And perhaps his few rough notes made at the time, if thrown 
into a connected form, may induce by their perusal some qualified 
animal biologist to visit and investigate them thoroughly. In Mr. 
Mallet’s exhaustive monograph of the geological structure and physio- 
graphical aspects of the islands* their flora and fauna are only 
casually mentioned ; similarly, in the writer’s forthcomiag notice of their 
vegetation, there can be but incidental allusions to their topography, 
geology, or zoology. Yet from what the writer was himself able to 
observe it is probable that their zoology will prove as interesting as 
their geology or their botany. It need hardly be said that the notes 
which follow allude entirely to aii*-breathing creatures and that no 
reference will be made to the marine fauna of the localities. 
Mammalia ;—A rat swarms everywhere on both islands and is the 
most plentiful mammal present. Examples preserved in the Indian 
Museum, obtained in Barren Island by Mr. Oldham, show that the 
* Memoirs of the Geol. Survey of India, vol, xxi, pp. 251—28(3. 
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