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4. Mr. Anderson enquired if anyone had seen in Quetta the Indian House 

 or Sewer Rat (Mus rattus). The reply was in the negative. It was also re- 

 marked that the Common House Mouse of Quetta was Mm bactrianus, and not 

 the Indian variety Mm urbanus, no skin of which had so far been sent to the 

 Quetta Museum. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING HELD ON THURSDAY. 



THE 28TH MAY, 1908. 



1. Read letter, No. 602, dated 27th April 1908, from Dr. N. Annandale, 

 stating that, according to Oldfield Thomas, the rats identified by the British 

 Museum as Nesocia huttoni were the same as Nesocia hardwicUi. that name 

 given by the Indian Museum to specimens sent to Quetta. 



2. The following specimens were then passed round for the inspection of 

 the members present : — 



(1) A Pied Chat (Savicola picata, Blyth), with two eggs, collected by 



Mr. J. W. N. Cumming. 



(2) A female Indian Paradise Fly-catcher (Terpsiphone paradisi, Linn.), 



collected by Mr. J. W. N. Cumming. 



(3) An Indian Oriole (Oriolus kundoo, Sykes) with nest, collected by 



Mr. B. H. Ford. 

 (■1) A Hutton's Owlet {Athene bactriana, Blyth), collected by Mr. J. W. N. 

 Cumming. 



(5) A Quetta Vole {EUobius fuscicapillus, Blanford), collected by Mr. 



Stevenson. 



(6) Two Euphratic Vipers (Vipera lebetiua, Daud), presented by Mr. 



Shiawakshaw Pherozeshaw. 



(7) A Rat-snake (Zamente mucosus), presented by Mr. W. R. S. Porter. 



(8) A young Snake, presented by Mr. T. Clear. 



(9) Four Sea Snakes, presented by Major R. A. E. Benn, CLE. 



(10) A Viper (Echis carinata, Merr. Tent), from Karachi, presented by 



Mr. W. C. Clements. 



(11) A small Tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii, Grey), from Hannah (near 



Quetta), a specimen of Chromite from Tor Jung, Hindubagh, and 

 several Fossils from Surghand, 18 miles from Hindubagh, all pre- 

 sented by Mr. W. C. Clements. 

 3. With regard to the birds the Honorary Secretary remarked that though 

 the Pied Chat was a familiar bird in Sind during the winter and in Quetta 

 during the summer, he had never seen its eggs till the other day, when he 

 found a nest with 3 fresh eggs under the roof of a hut on the Volunteer Rifle 

 Range at Quetta ; that records, however, existed to show that they had pre- 

 viously been collected in Quetta by Captain T. E. Marshall and Major 

 R. Betham ; that the Indian Paradise fly-catcher was an extremely rare bird 

 in these parts, the specimen before the meeting being the first he had come 



