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One of tlie most remarkable birds obtained Mas Lanius 

 gubernator Ilartl., J. f. O. 1882, p. 323, Taf. i. fig. 2, ^Yhich 

 ■was previously known only from Equatorial Africa. 



Mr. J. L. BoNHOTE exhibited a series of adult skins of 

 the Red-throated Diver (^Culymbus septentrional is) showing 

 the various stages of the moult, and pointed out that the 

 species had a distinct autumn dress before the moult, which 

 was assumed by a regular abrasion during the latter end 

 of the breeding-season. From the immature specimens 

 Mr. Bonhote assumed that they evidently moulted straight 

 into their adult dress, probably during their second winter. 



Mr. Bonhote also exhibited two specimens in moult of the 

 Great Northern Diver [Colymbus glacialis), showing that iu 

 this species the new feathers which grow at the autumn 

 moult were at first greyish, and assumed immediately, by 

 change of colour, the characteristic dark background with 

 white sj)ots. 



No. LXVI. (November 30th, ] 899) . 



The sixty-fifth Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 22nd of November, 1899. Chairman : P. L. Sclatek, F.R.S. 

 Twenty-nine Members and three guests were present. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe handed round to the Meeting 

 facsimiles of two letters in Gilbert Whitens handwriting, 

 one addressed to Thomas Pennant and the other to the 

 Hon. Daines Barrington. 



The Chairman then gave his Annual Address to the 

 Club :— 



Brother Members or the B. O. C, — I thank you for the 

 honour you have done me by electing me Chairman for the 

 Eighth Session of this Club, and wish to express my regret 

 at not having been able to attend the first Meeting. I will, 

 however, take the opportunity now afforded me by being 



