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Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society ' <«» til 111 . JOURNAL OF THE BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Hornbill House, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg, Mumbai 400 001 Executive Editor Asad R. Rahmani, Ph. D Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai Copy and Production Editor Vibhuti Dedhia, M. Sc. Editorial Board M.R. Almeida, D. Litt. T.C. Narendran, Ph. D., D. Sc. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala Ajith Kumar, Ph. D. National Centre for Biological Sciences, GKVK Campus, Aasheesh Pittie, B. Com. Hebbal, Bangalore Bird Watchers Society of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad M.K. Chandrashekaran, Ph. D., D. Sc. Nehru Professor, Jawaharlal Centre G.S. Rawat, Ph. D. for Scientific Research, Advanced Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun Bangalore K. Rema Devi, Ph. D. Anwaruddin Choudhury, Ph. D., D. Sc. Zoological Survey of India, Chennai The Rhino Foundation for Nature, Guwahati J.S. Singh, Ph. D. Indraneil Das, D. Phil. Professor, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia, Sarawak, Malaysia S. Subramanya, Ph. D. University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, P.T. Cherian, Ph. D. Hebbal, Bangalore Emeritus Scientist, Department of Zoology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum R. Sukumar, Ph. D. Professor, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Y.V. Jhala, Ph. D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Wildlife Institute of India, Dehrdun K. Ullas Karanth, Ph. D. Romulus Whitaker, B Sc. Wildlife Conservation Society - India Program, Madras Reptile Park and Crocodile Bank Trust, Bangalore, Karnataka Tamil Nadu Senior Consultant Editor J.C. Daniel, M. Sc. Consultant Editors Raghunandan Chundawat, Ph. D. Wildlife Conservation Society, Bangalore Nigel Collar, Ph. D. BirdLife International, UK Rhys Green, Ph. D. Royal Society for Protection of Birds, UK Qamar Qureshi, M. Phil. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun T.J. Roberts, Ph. D. World Wildlife Fund - Pakistan Rachel Reuben, Ph. D. Mumbai Editorial Assistant: Sonali P. Vadhavkar, M. Sc. Layout and Typesetting: V. Gopi Naidu © Bombay Natural History Society 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be addressed to the Honorary Secretary, BNHS at the address given above. VOLUME 104 (2): AUGUST 2007 125 V. Prakash, R.E. Green, D.J. Pain, S.P. Ranade, S. Saravanan, N. Prakash, R. Venkitachalam, R. Cuthbert, A.R. Rahmaniand A. A. Cunningham 127 SURVEY OF THREATENED CHEER PHEASANT CATREUS WALLICHII IN GARHWAL HIMALAYA M.S. Bisht, S. Phurailatpam, B.S. Kathait, A.K. Dobriyal, Asha Chandola-Saklani and Rahul Kaul 134 POPULATION STATUS OF MONGOLIAN ARGALI OVIS AMMON WITH REFERENCE TO SUSTAINABLE USE MANAGEMENT Michael R. Frisina, Yondon Onon and R. Margaret Frisina 140 POPULATION ESTIMATION AND DEMOGRAPHY OF THE RAJAJI NATIONAL PARK ELEPHANTS, NORTH-WEST INDIA Amirtharaj C. Williams, Asir J.T. Johnsingh and Paul Krausman 145 SMALL CARNIVORES OF KARNATAKA: DISTRIBUTION AND SIGHT RECORDS H.N. Kumara and Mewa Singh 153 LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP AND RELATIVE CONDITION FACTOR OF JUVENILE GOLDEN MAHSEER TOR PUTITORA (HAMILTON 1822), IN THE TRIBUTARIES OF RAMGANGA RIVER, UTTARAKHAND Vidhyadhar M. Atkore, K. Sivakumar and A. J.T. Johnsingh 161 BIONOMICS OF A CRITICALLY ENDANGERED AND ENDEMIC CATFISH, HORABAGRUS NIGRICOLLARIS FROM ITS TYPE LOCALITY IN KERALA PH. Anvar Ali and G. Prasad 165 ICTHYOFAUNAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE STATE AND COMPARISON OF HABITAT CONTIGUITY ON TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY IN SENKHI STREAM, ARUNACHAL PRADESH, INDIA Lakpa Tamang, Shivaji Chaudhry and Dhrupad Choudhury 170 FOOD HABITS OF LEOPARD (PANTHERA PARDUS FUSCA ), DHOLE (CUON ALPINUS) AND STRIPED HYENA (HYAENA HYAENA) IN A TROPICAL DRY THORN FOREST OF SOUTHERN INDIA C. Arivazhagan, R. Arumugam and K. Thiyagesan 178 NEW DESCRIPTIONS A NEW SPECIES OF VACCINIUM L. (ERICACEAE) FROM INDIA S. Panda and M. Sanjappa 188 A NEW BUTTERFLY SPECIES OF THE GENUS YPTHIMA HUBNER (NYMPHALIDAE: SATYRINAE) FROM GARHWAL HIMALAYA, INDIA Arun P. Singh 191 REVIEWS 1 . GOLDEN TREES GREENSPACES AND URBAN FORESTRY Reviewed by Naresh Chaturvedi 195 2. VERTEBRATE PESTS IN AGRICULTURE - THE INDIAN SCENARIO Reviewed by Asad R. Rahmani 195 3. SOUTHEAST ASIAN BIODIVERSITY IN CRISIS Reviewed by Asad R. Rahmani 196 4. BIRDS OF PREY OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT Reviewed by Asad R. Rahmani 197 . MISCELLANEOUS NOTES MAMMALS 1 8. Rediscovery of the missing syntypes of Mabuya nagarjuni 1 The eastern limit of distribution of the Hanuman Langur Sharma 1969 (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Collection of Semnopithecus entellus Dufrense the Zoological Survey of India Anwaruddin Choudhury 199 By C. Srinivasulu and Indraneil Das 223 2. Macaques ‘kidnap’ infant Palm Civets AMPHIBIANS By Su Su 200 19. Range extension of Chirixalus simus Annandale 1915 3. Livestock-Dhole conflict in Western Bhutan (Anura: Rhacophoridae) By A.J.T. Johnsingh, Deki Yonten and By Rakesh Soud, R. Das and K. Deuti 224 Sangay Wangchuck 201 4. Five-striped Palm Squirrel (Funnambulus pennantii) in FISHES 7. Rishi Valley, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh 20. Sexual dimorphism in the Cyprinid Fish Puntius By V. Santharam 202 conchonius (Hamilton-Buchanan) 5. The Gaur Bos frontalis Lambert in Manipur 8. ByAnoop K. Dobriyal, Pankaj Bahuguna, By Anwaruddin Choudhury 203 Shiv Prasad Uniyal and Hemant K. Joshi 225 6. Significant new low elevation record for Goral 21. Sexual dimorphism in Flathead Grey Mullet Mugil Nemorhaedus goral (Hardwicke) cephalus (Linnaeus) By Anwaruddin Choudhury 204 By Jency Paul, Honey Sebastian, N.D. Inasu and Discovery of Leaf Deer Muntlacus putaoensis C.O. Joshi 226 Rabinowitz etal. in Nagaland with a new northerly record 22. New records of two eel fishes from Great Nicobar Island, from Arunachal Pradesh Bay of Bengal By Anwaruddin Choudhury 205 By R. Rajaram, M. Srinivasan, S. Ajmal Khan, Status of Hog Deer Axis porcinus Zimmermann in L. Kannan, D.V. Rao and Kamala Devi 228 Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts of Assam 23. Balltora brucei(Gray) and Glyptothorax telchitta (Hamilton), By Anwaruddin Choudhury 208 two new reports for Arunachal Pradesh, India By Lakpa Tamang, Shivaji Chaudhry and BIRDS Dhrupad Choudhury 229 9. First sighting of White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla in INSECTS Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhutan 24. Type specimen of insect Acanthacorydalis horrenda By Anwaruddin Choudhury 209 Navas (Megaloptera) in the Collection of Bombay Natural 10. Sighting of large number of Short-toed Eagle Circaetus History Society gallicus and Greater Adjutant Leptoptilos dubius in By Naresh Chaturvedi 231 Kaziranga National Park 25. Additions to the Coccinellid fauna of the Andamans By Anwaruddin Choudhury 210 Islands and the biology of the endemic Chilocorus 11. The Great Indian Bustard Ardeotis nigriceps: are they coelosim/lis Kapur 1966 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) disappearing in Karnataka? By K. Veenakumari and Prashanth Mohanraj 232 By H.N. Kumara and V. Vijay Mohan Raj 211 26. Additions to larval host plants of butterflies of the 12. Recent records of Yellow-eyed Pigeon Columba Western Ghats, Kerala, southern India (Rhopalocera, eversmanni in Rajasthan Lepidoptera): Part 1 By Harkirat Singh Sangha and Shantanu Kumar 212 By S. Kalesh and Satya Krishna Prakash 235 13. On the sighting of the Lesser Coucal Centropus 17. bengalensls in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands PROCHORDATA By Manish Chandi 213 27. New records of two species of simple ascidians - 14. Sighting of Stoliczka’s Bushchat Saxicola macrorhynchus Microcosmus pupa (Savigny, 1816) and Microcosmus in Pune district, Maharashtra, Western India squamiger Hartmeyer& Michaelsen, 1928 -from Indian By Rahul Rao 214 seas By V.K. Meenakshi and S. Senthamarai 238 REPTILES OTHER INVERTEBRATES 15. Status of Mugger Crocodylus palustris in Similipal Tiger 28. New record of Wolf Spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) of Reserve, Orissa, India the genus Hlppasa Simon from Bangladesh By Debabrata Swain and Hemanta K. Sahu 214 By V. Biswas and D. Raychaudhuri 240 16. Observations on burrows dug by Mugger Crocodiles ( Crocodylus palustris) in Bundala National Park, BOTANY Sri Lanka 29. Additions to the grass genera of north-west Rajasthan By Rom Whitaker, Brady Barr, Anslem de Silva and By H.K. Takhar and S.S. Katewa 246 Pradeep Ratnasiri 217 30. Ponerorchis nana (King & Pantl.) Soo (Orchidaceae): a A report of Geckoella nebulosa (Beddome, 1870) from new record for Uttarakhand Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh By Jeewan S. Jalal, Gopal S. Rawat and By Ishan Agarwal 222 Y.P.S. Pangtey 247 li 31. A note on the occurrence of Listera tenuis Lindl. 34. A note on distributional record of Spergularia diandra (Orchidaceae) in Kumaon Himalaya (Guss.) Heldr. & Sart from Pin Valley National Park in By Jeewan S. Jalal, Gopal S. Rawat and India Y.RS. Pangtey 248 By K. Chandra Sekar and S.K. Srivastava 251 32. Synotis atatus (Wall, ex DC.) Jeffery (Asteraceae) - a 35. A note on the identity and range extension of Riccia grollei new record for Arunachal Pradesh Udar By S.P. Jain 248 By Adarsh Kumar and Shazia Kazmi 252 33. Herniaria cinerea DC. (Caryophyllaceae) - a new record for India Cover Photograph: Red Lacewing Cethosia biblis (Drury) By Prashant K. Pusalkar and D.K. Singh 249 By Isaac Kehimkar ERRATA Volume 104 (1), January-April 2007. page 88, Fig. 1. For “Fig.
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