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A Fossil (Amblypygus alius ? ), from Manzai, presented by Col. C. jW. 

 Jacob. 



A Bed-tailed Chat, from Kaliphat, presented by Lt. G. T. Eaikes. 



Three specimens of Pyrrhocoris apterns (?) found by Mr. Dracott in a 

 fissure in a rock and in a building at Hanna. 



The Honorary Secretary brought to notice the rarity of the Jackdaw 

 and the Red-tailed Chat, remarking that the existence of the former in 

 Baluchistan had not previously been recorded, while Major Cough 

 remarked that he had also seen some recently. 



Read letter, No. 1874, dated the 3rd November 1909, from Mr. I. H. 

 Burkill, M.A., Offg. Reporter on Economic Products to the Government of 

 India, Calcutta, intimating that the specimen of Artemisia (vernacular 

 " Tirkha " ) sent to him had proved, on examination, to be A. maritima, 

 and that the white tufts on the plant are the work of insects. 



Read letter, dated 6th November 1909, from Mr. N. B. Kinnear, Keeper 

 of the Museum, Bombay Natural History Society, intimating that the 

 Snipe sent to him for identification was Gallinago solitaria, the Himalayan 

 Solitary Snipe, and that it tallied with a bird received by the Society 

 recently from Garhwal, the absence of any black on the head and of the 

 pale median stripe on the crown being doubtless due to its being a young 

 bird. 



21s* December 1909. 



Read list of donations received and purchases made by the Museum since 

 the last meeting, the objects themselves being passed round for inspection. 



Of these, the most important were— 



A Hysena, from Gulistan, presented by S. B. Haji Ghulam Hyder Khan. 



A large Cormorant, from Khushdi Khan Ban, presented by Lt. R. M. 

 Jacob. 



Two Bramblings, from Quetta, presented by Lt. A. M. Lloyd. 



A Barnes's Chat, from Baleli, presented by Master Arthur Gumming. 



A copy of a work entitled " Insect Intruders in Indian Homes " by 

 Mr. E. P. Stebbing. 



A painting by Mrs. Dracott, of two wild plants found growing at 

 Hanna. 



Read letter, No. 939, dated 2nd December 1909, from Mr. H. Maxwell- 

 Lefroy, M.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S., Imperial Entomologist, Agricultural Research 

 Institute, Pusa, forwarding three moths which had come out of some of the 

 cases found by Mr. Dracott at Hanna and referred to in the Society's Pro- 

 ceedings of 22nd October 1909, and stating that they are undescribed in 

 the Fauna of India and are probably new to science. 



27th January 1910. 

 Read list of donations made to the Museum since the last meeting, the 





