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Journal Vol. 104(1) - April 2007

**CONTENTS**
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	12
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 (OVIS ORIENTALIS) IN THE KALABAGH GAME RESERVE, PUNJAB PROVINCE, PAKISTAN. Michael R. Frisina, Ghulam Ali Awan and Michael H. Woodford	35
FEEDING ECOLOGY OF INDIAN PORCUPINE (HYSTRIX INDICA KERR) IN COCONUT (COCOS 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 DESCRIPTION
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
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
1. A note on the latex licking habit of Five-striped and Three-striped Palm Squirrels. By Satish Kumar Sharma	82
2. Stranding of a Sperm Whale Physeter macrocephalus (Linnaeus 1758) on the Chennai Coast. By K. Venkataraman, M.C. John Milton and K.P. Raghuram	83
BIRDS
3. Further note on development of a hybrid between a female Oriental White Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus and a male Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia. By Raju Vyas	85
4. Communal harrier roost-sites in Mumbai and Akola districts, Maharashtra. By Ashok Verma	85
5. Khasi Hills Swift Apus acuticauda: First record from Nagaland and Manipur, north-east India. By M. Firoz Ahmed, Abhijit Das and Vivoselie Meyase	87
6. First record of Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus superciliosus Latham from India. By Sujan Chatterjee and Sumit K. Sen	89
7. The challenge of the Phylloscopi By T.J. Roberts	89
8. Broad-tailed Grass-warbler Schoenicola platyura in Nashik, Maharashtra. By Bishwarup Raha, Rameshwar Sarda and Viral K. Mistry	93
9. Paternal aggressive behaviour towards offspring in Purple-rumped Sunbird Nectarinia zeylonica. By Anand Prasad	94
10. Range extension of Jungle Myna Acridotheres fuscus fumidus. By Sujan Chatterjee, Sumit K. Sen and Dipankar Ghose	95
11. Some observations on the geographic variation of mixed-species bird flocks in Sri Lanka. By Eben Goodale and Sarath W. Kotagama	96
12. Additions to the avifauna of Goa, India. By S.D. Borges and A.B. Shanbhag	98
REPTILES
13. Hole-nesting in captive Indotestudo travancorica. By Madhuri Ramesh	101
14. Further notes on breeding colour in male Calotes versicolor . by Satish Kumar Sharma	102
15. Record of Boiga beddomei (Wall 1909) from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India. By S. Sivakumar and Ranjit Manakadan	103
AMPHIBIANS
16. Micrixalus fuscus (Anura: Micrixalidae) in Sharavathi River Basin, Karnataka. By K.V. Gururaja, Sameer Ali and T.V. Ramachandra	104
17. Occurrence of Melanobatrachus indicus Beddome 1878 in Mathikettan shola, Western Ghats. By A.M.A. Nixon and S. Bhupathy	105
PROTOCHORDATES
18. New record of the simple ascidian Styela plicata (Lesueur 1823). By V.K. Meenakshi and S. Senthamarai	106
INSECTS
19. Spiralling Whitefly Aleurodicus dispersus Russell (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) invades Andamans. By G. Shyam Prasad, S. Bhagat and V. Jayakumar	108
OTHER INVERTEBRATES
20. Occurrence of Lumbrineris hartmani (Day 1953) (Polychaeta: Lumbrineridae): A new record for Indian waters. By R. Rajasekaran and Olivia J. Fernando	109
21. Morphology and identification of Cladoceran fauna occurring in the Fish Seed Farm, Aarey, Mumbai, India. By S.D. Patil and U.A. Siddham	111
BOTANY
22. Aeginetia indica Roxb.: A new non-photosynthetic angiosperm for Jammu and Kashmir flora. By Harish Chander Dutt and Shashi Kant	116
23. Diospyros nigrescens (Dalz.) Saldanha (Ebenaceae): An addition to the flora of Tamil Nadu. By S. Karuppusamy, K.M. Rajasekaran and T. Pullaiah	117
24. Convolvulus microphyllus Sieb. ex Spreng. (Convolvulaceae): A new record for peninsular India. By S. Karuppusamy and T. Pullaiah	118
25. Stebbinsia umbrella (Franch.) Lip. (Asteraceae): A new record for India. By D. Maity and G.G. Maiti	119
26. Passerine bird-pollination in the dry season blooming Butea superba Roxb. (Fabaceae) in the Eastern Ghats. By A.J. Solomon Raju and S. Purnachandra Rao	120
27. Synchronous senescence in Neem trees in Bijnor and Jyotiba Phule Nagar districts of western Uttar Pradesh. By Sanjay Kumar	121
28. Occurrence of a bi-chambered fruit of the Red Silk-cotton Bombax ceiba. By Vibhakar K. Paralkar	123