944 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVIII. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING HELD ON MONDAY. THE 



27TH JULY, 1908. 



1. Read letter, dated 4th June 1908, from Dr. Annandale, Superintendent of 

 the Indian Museum, acknowledging receipt of certain specimens sent to him, 

 including a second Land Tortoise ( Testudo horsjieldii), and stating that, of the 

 other specimens, the beetles collected by Sir Henry McMahon at Quetta on 

 the 22nd March last were Tropinoia squalida, Linn., that others were small 

 Scarabeidoi (Dung Beetles) and Ixodididaz (Ticks) belonging to groups of which 

 the Indian species have not yet been worked out ; while the specimens of the 

 little animals resembling the woodlouse, which swarms all over the roads in 

 Quetta, were a variety (unnamed) of Isopod Crustacea, which he was retaining 

 for further study. 



In passing round for inspection the specimens returned by Dr. Annandale, 

 the Hon'ble President reminded the members that no specimens of Testudo 

 oiluchii had as yet been presented to the Quetta Museum, and urged its being 

 looked for. 



2. Special attention was invited by the Hon'ble President to the horns of 

 the Indian Gazelle, which were of interest in that this Gazelle was found at 

 Killa Saifulla, beyond which place the Gazelle usually found is the Persian 

 Gazelle {Gazella subgutlurosa, Guld). 



Read letter, dated 17th June 1908, from the Honorary Secretary, Bombay 

 Natural History Society, stating that he will be glad to receive the live Mottled 

 Pole Cats, referred to at the last meeting, and send a couple of them on to 

 the British Museum. 



3. Read letter, dated the 14th July 1908. from the Honorary Secretary 

 Bombay Natural History Society, returning the large Mouse Hare sent to him 

 on the 2nd April, and stating that it had been identified by Mr. Wroughton, of 

 the British Museum, as the Afghan Mouse Hare {Lagomys rufescens , Gray). 



4. The Honorary Secretary next invited the attention of the members to a 

 small collection of specimens (mostly birds) which the Museum had decided 

 to forward as a donation to the Bombay Natural History Society in return for 

 valuable assistance received from it. 



PROCEEDINGS OP THE MEETING HELD ON SATURDAY, 

 THE 29th AUGUST 1908. 



1. The Hon'ble President placed before the meeting a fresh " list of the 

 Birds of Baluchistan, " prepared by Mr. J. W. N. Cumming, in which he had 

 embodied the list of the Birds of Ormara, received from Mr. W. D. Cummin<> 

 {vide Proceedings of Meeting held on the 28th May last). He pointed out 

 what a valuable contribution it was to the Society, and expressed the hope that 

 members would do their best to collect all the additional information they 

 could on the subject so as to make the list more complete. 



