JOURNAL OF THE BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY APRIL 2007 VOL. 104(1) . 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. Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre G.S. Rawat, Ph. D. for Advanced Scientific Research, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun Bangalore K. Rema Devi, Ph D. Anwaruddin Choudhury, Ph. D. 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, Kerala, University of 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 Qatnar Qureshi, M. Phil. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun T.J. Roberts, Ph. D. World Wildlife Fund - Pakistan Rachel Reuben, Ph. D. Mumbai Editorial Assistant: Hetal Hariya, M. Sc. Layout and Typesetting: V. Gopi Naidu © Bombay Natural History Society 2006 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 (1): APRIL 2007 EDITORIAL 1 PASTORAL PRACTICES, WILD MAMMALS AND CONSERVATION STATUS OF ALPINE MEADOWS IN WESTERN HIMALAYA G.S. Rawat 5 NEW BIRD DESCRIPTIONS WITHOUT PROPER VOUCHER SPECIMENS: REFLECTIONS AFTER THE BUGUN LIOCICHLA CASE Ragupathy Kannan 1 2 BIRD COMMUNITIES OF THE PROPOSED NAINA AND PINDARI WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES IN THE KUMAON HIMALAYA, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA Aisha Sultana, M. Shah Hussain and Jamal A. Khan 19 SEASONAL PATTERN IN THE TERRITORIAL DYNAMICS OF THE ARBOREAL ANT OECOPHYLLA SMARAGDINA (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) N. Rastogi 30 DETERMINING TROPHY HARVEST QUOTAS THROUGH A STATUS SURVEY OF URIAL (OT IS OR1ENTALIS) IN THE KALABAGH GAME RESERVE, PUNJAB PROVINCE, PAKISTAN Michael R. Frisina, Ghulam Ali Awan and Michael H. Woodford 35 INDIAN PORCUPINE (HYSTRIX INDICA KERR) IN COCONUT COCOS FEEDING ECOLOGY OF ( NUCIFERA L.) PLANTATIONS OF THE WESTERN GHATS OF KARNATAKA A.K. Chakravarthy and A.C. Girish 40 LEOPARDS IN HUMAN-DOMINATED AREAS: A SPILLOVER FROM SUSTAINED TRANSLOCATIONS INTO NEARBY FORESTS? Vidya R. Athreya, Sanjay S. Thakur, Sujoy Chaudhuri and Aniruddha V. Belsare 45 FISH BIODIVERSITY IN THE WATER BODIES OF SAMASPUR BIRD SANCTUARY, UTTAR PRADESH: TOWARDS DEVELOPING A FRESHWATER AQUATIC SANCTUARY U.K. Sarkar, D. Kapoor, S.K. Paul, A.K. Pathak, V.S. Basheer, P.K. Deepak, S.M. Srivastava and L.K. Tyagi 51 NEW DESCRIPTIONS TWO NEW SPECIES OF MELINDA ROBINEAU-DESVOIDY (DIPTERA: CALLIPHORIDAE) FROM INDIA WITH A KEY TO THE INDIAN SPECIES OF THIS GENUS Devinder Singh and Inderpal Singh Sidhu 55 CRAB SPIDERS (ARANEAE: THOMISIDAE) OF JALDAPARA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, JALPAIGURI, WEST BENGAL - I Sumana Saha and Dinendra Raychaudhuri 58 A NEW SPECIES OF NAMANEREIDINAE: NAMALYCASTIS GLASBYI SP. NOV. FROM INDIAN WATERS Olivia J. Fernando and R. Rajasekaran 64 ON THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW THRIPS RELATED TO THE GENUS HAPLOTHRIPS AMYOT & SERVILLE FROM DELHI Vikas Kumar, Kaomud Tyagi and J.S. Bhatti 68 A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS GASTRANCISTRUS WESTWOOD (HYMENOPTERA: PTEROMALIDAE) FROM INDIA Ankita Gupta and M.A. Khan 72 A NEW SPECIES OF TELEOSTEI: PUNTIUS POOKODENSIS (CYPRINIDAE) FROM WAYANAD, KERALA, INDIA T.V. Anna Mercy and Eapen Jacob 76 1 REVIEWS 1. INSECTS OF INDIA Reviewed by Naresh Chaturvedi 79 2. CATFISHES OF INDIA Reviewed by B.F. Chhapgar 79 3. FOREST TREES OF SOUTH INDIA Reviewed by M.R. Almeida 80 4. TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS: AN ECOLOGICAL AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL COMPARISON Reviewed by Asad R. Rahmani 81 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES MAMMALS AMPHIBIANS 1 6 . 1 . A note on the latex licking habit of Five-striped and Micrixalus fuscus (Anura: Micrixalidae) in Sharavathi Three-striped Palm Squirrels River Basin, Karnataka By Satish Kumar Sharma 82 By K.V. Gururaja, Sameer All and T.V. Ramachandra 104 2. Stranding of a Sperm Whale Physeter macrocephalus 17. Occurrence of Melanobatrachus indicus Beddome 1878 (Linnaeus 1758) on the Chennai Coast in Mathikettan shola, Western Ghats By K. Venkataraman, M.C. John Milton and By A.M.A. Nixon and S. Bhupathy 105 K.P. Raghuram 83 PROTOCHORDATES BIRDS 18. New record of the simple ascidian Styela plicata (Lesueur 1823) 3. Further note on development of a hybrid between a By V.K. Meenakshi and S. Senthamarai 106 female Oriental White Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus and a male Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia 21.INSECTS By Raju Vyas 85 19. Spiralling Whitefly Aleurodicus dispersus Russell 4. Communal harrier roost- sites in Mumbai and Akola (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) invades Andamans districts, Maharashtra By G. Shyam Prasad, S. Bhagat and V. Jayakumar .... 108 ByAshokVerma 85 5 . Khasi Hills Swift Apus acuticauda\ First record from OTHER INVERTEBRATES Nagaland and Manipur, north-east India 20. Occurrence of Lumbrineris hartmani (Day 1953) By M. Firoz Ahmed, Abhijit Das and Vivoselie Meyase 87 (Polychaeta: Lumbnneridae): A new record for Indian 6. First record of Brown Shrike 'Lanins cristatus waters superciliosus Latham from India R. Rajasekaran Olivia By and J. Fernando 109 By Sujan Chatterjee and Sumit K. Sen 89 Morphology and identification of Cladoceran fauna 7. The challenge of the Phylloscopi occurring in the Fish Seed Farm, Aarey, Mumbai, India By Roberts 89 T.J. By S.D. Patil and U.A. Siddham 1 1 8. Broad-tailed Grass-warbler Schoenicola platyura in Nashik, Maharashtra BOTANY By Bishwarup Raha, Rameshwar Sarda and 22. Aeginetia indica Roxb.: A new non-photosynthetic Viral K. Mistry 93 angiosperm for Jammu and Kashmir flora 9. Paternal aggressive behaviour towards offspring in By Harish Chander Dutt and Shashi Kant 116 Purple -rumped Sunbird Nectarinia %ejlonica 23. Diospyros nigrescens (Dalz.) Saldanha (Ebenaceae): An By Anand Prasad 94 addition to the flora of Tamil Nadu 10. Range extension of Jungle Myna Acridotheres fuscus By S. Karuppusamy, K.M. Rajasekaran and T. Pullaiah 117 fumidus 24. Convolvulus microphyllus Sieb. ex Spreng. By Sujan Chatterjee, Sumit K. Sen and (Convolvulaceae): A new record for peninsular India Dipankar Ghose 95 By S. Karuppusamy and T. Pullaiah 118 11. Some observations on the geographic variation of 25. Stebbinsia umbrella (Franch.) Lip. (Asteraceae): A new mixed-species bird flocks in Sri Lanka record for India By Eben Goodale and Sarath W Kotagama 96 By D. Maity and G.G. Maiti 119 12. Additions to die avifauna of Goa, India 26. Passerine bird-pollination in the dry season blooming By S.D. Borges and A.B. Shanbhag 98 Butea superba Roxb. (Fabaceae) in the Eastern Ghats By A.J. Solomon Raju and S. Purnachandra Rao 120 REPTILES 27. Synchronous senescence in Neem trees in Bijnor and Phule Nagar districts of western Uttar Pradesh 1 3 . Hole-nesting in captive Indotestudo travancorica Jyotiba By Madhuri Ramesh 101 By Sanjay Kumar 121 14. Further notes on breeding colour in male Calotes 28. Occurrence of a bi-chambered fruit of the Red versicolor Silk-cotton Bombax ceiba By Satish Kumar Sharma 102 By Vibhakar K. Paralkar 123 1 5. Record of Boiga beddomei (Wall 1909) from Sriharikota, Cover Photograph: Blue-headed Rock-thrush Andhra Pradesh, India Monticola cinclorhynchus By S. Sivakumar and Ranjit Manakadan 103 By Clement Francis M. li Editorial DNA-Barcoding - a new tool to look at the diversity of life Counting, classification and naming come naturally to human beings. From time immemorial, human beings have been naming and classifying life forms based on existing knowledge and the culture of the region. Modem scientific classification of species started with the development of binomial nomenclature by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus ( 1707-78). Till now, approximately 1 .7 million species of plants and animals have been named (excluding microbes), and it is said that there could be 10 million species in the world. Thousands of new species are described every year, particularly invertebrates. Even in the well-known vertebrate groups, such as birds and mammals, new species are being discovered with increasing frequency, mainly in the tropics. Earlier, species were mainly described based on their morphological features, including skeletons. In recent time, a new method - DNA barcoding or DNA taxonomy - has been developed to identify species based on their DNA sequence. In brief, the barcode of life is a short DNA sequence, from a uniform locality on the genome, used for identifying species. The proponents of DNA barcoding claim that ‘it will help people quickly and cheaply recognize known species and retrieve information about them, and will speed discovery of the millions of species yet to be named’. They have given ten main reasons for Barcoding Life (http://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/docs/ TenReasonsBarcoding/pdf).