April 2011 | Vol. 3 | No. 4 | Pages 1637–1736Date of Publication 26 April 2011

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Communications

An inventory of the chiropteran fauna of Himachal Pradesh, northwestern India with some ecological observations-- Uttam Saikia, M.L. Thakur, Mayur Bawri & P.C. Bhattacherjee, Pp. 1637–1655

Effect of human feeding on the road mortality of Rhesus Macaques on National Highway - 7 routed along Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India-- A. Pragatheesh, Pp. 1656–1662

Ornithofauna and its conservation in the Kuttanad wetlands, southern portion of Vembanad-Kole Ramsar site, India-- S. Prasanth Narayanan, A.P. Thomas & B. Sreekumar, Pp. 1663–1676

Ecological effects on morphometric development of the Indian Eagle Owl Bubo bengalensis-- Satish Pande & Neelesh Dahanukar, Pp. 1677–1685

Systematic status of Systomus rubrotinctus Jerdon (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) with notes on the Puntius arulius group of fishes-- J.D. Marcus Knight, K. Rema Devi & Vidyadhar Atkore, Pp. 1686–1693

Detrimental effects of low atmospheric humidity and forest fire on a community of western Himalayan butterflies -- Peter Smetacek, Pp. 1694–1701

Tools

Wildlife art and illustration: some experiments in Auroville, India-- M. Eric Ramanujam & S. Joss Brooks, Pp. 1702–1710

Short Communications

A checklist of avian fauna at Jeypore Reserve Forest, eastern Assam, India with special reference to globally threatened and endemic species in the Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspot-- Prasanta Kumar Saikia & Oinam Sunanda Devi, Pp. 1711–1718

Notes

Record of Tetracerus quadricornis (de Blainville, 1816) in Pilibhit Forest division of Terai Arc Landscape, Uttar Pradesh, India-- Meraj Anwar, Harish Kumar & Joseph Vattakavan, Pp. 1719–1721

Site records of softshell turtles (Chelonia: Trionychidae) from Barak Valley, Assam, northeastern India-- Kulendra C. Das & Abhik Gupta, Pp. 1722–1726

Discovery of a possible hybrid of the Critically Endangered Forest Owlet Athene blewitti and Spotted Owlet Athene brama (Aves: Strigiformes) from northern Maharashtra, India -- Satish A. Pande, Amit P. Pawashe, Raju Kasambe & Reuven Yosef, Pp. 1727–1730

Report on the extended distribution of two endemic plants (Angiospermae) in the central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India-- Gurumurthi R. Hegde & Ganesh R. Hegde, Pp. 1731–1734

Notes on the distribution of Maesa velutina Mez (Myrsinaceae) - a rare and endemic plant from India-- M.M. Sardesai & S.R. Yadav, Pp. 1735–1736