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Captain Mackie observed that it was the irony of fate that Captain Liston 

 was unable to be present at the meeting to read his paper owing to his having 

 just been attacked by the very disease about which he was intending to speak. 



The paper appears in full on page 872 of this Journal. 



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Several members having spoken on the subject of the paper, Mr. Justice 

 Macleod said that it was to be hoped that either the Municipality or -Govern- 

 ment would investigate the matter and he proposed a hearty vote of thanks 

 to Captain Liston for his valuable paper and to Captain Mackie for reading it. 

 This was passed unanimously and the meeting then terminated. 



BALUCHISTAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



PROCEEDINGS OF A MEETING OF THE MEMBERS HELD 



IN THE QUETTA MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING 



ON THURSDAY, THE 30TH APRIL, L908. 



1. Read letter, dated the 7th April 1908, from the Bombay Natural History 

 Society, returning, duly identified by the British Museum, skins of — 



CI) Jlerioaes erythrourits, The Afghan Gerbille ; 



(2) Lagomys rufescens, The Afghan Mouse Hare ; 



(3) Nesokia huttoni, The Short- tailed Mole Rat ; 



(4) Mus bactrianus, The Persian House Mouse ; 



(5) Cricetulus pliiuus, The Little Hamster ; 



(6) Ellobius fuscicapillus, The Quetta Vole ; 



sent to them on the 31st October 1907, with the remark that they had retained 

 duplicates of (i), (2), and (3), and would be glad to be supplied with skins 

 of Cricetulus phceus, the Little Gray Hamseer, and Ellobius fuscicapillus , the 

 Quetta Vole, of which only one of each had been sent to them. 



The Honorary Secretary reported having, in reply, sent the Bombay Natural 

 History Society a skin of Cricetulus phceus, with a promise to send them the 

 next skin obtained of Ellobius fuscicairillus. 



2. At the Hon'ble President's request, Mr. dimming placed before the meet- 

 ing a list of the birds of Baluchistan, prepared by him from notes contributed 

 from time to time to the Bombay Natural History Society's Journal by Captain 

 T. E. Marshall, R. A., Major R. M. Betharn, I. A., and Captain J. W. Watson, 

 I. M. S., and from birds in the Quetta Museum, which had been identified by 

 Rev. F. Lawrence and himself. 



3. Amongst the contributions were a White-headed or Stiff-tailed Duck. 

 Colonel O'Donnell stated that the Duck had been shot by him at Khushdil 



Khan last February, and Sir Henry remarked that, though rather mutilated, the 

 skin was well worth preserving, as the Stiff-tailed Duck was an extremely rare 

 visitant to these parts. 



