Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' (Jluh. 3G1 



Gallicrex cinerea (Gm.) ; Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1894-, 

 p. 535. 



Nests in the long grass, but is not common. Native 

 name " Manugtul." 



The specimen sent was shot iu a field of young cane on 

 the 8th of April, 1899. 



XIX. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. LXVII.-LXIX. 



No. LXVII. (Decemher 30th, 1899). 



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

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 13th of December, 1899. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Twenty-five Members and five guests were present. 



The Chairman referred in feeling terms to the loss which 

 ornithological science had sustained by the death of Dr. A. 

 C. Stark, who had been killed by a shell during the recent 

 fighting at Ladysmith in Natal, whither he had repaired to 

 render medical aid to the wounded soldiers. 



A vote of condolence to the relatives of the deceased 

 naturalist was unanimously passed by the Meeting. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe also alluded to the untimely death 

 of Colonel Henry P. Northcott, during tlie first battle on 

 the Modder River. A list of the birds obtained by the 

 deceased officer in the hinterland of the Gold Coast had 

 recently appeared in the 'Bulletin^ (see above^ p. 183). 



The Hon. Walter Rothsckilu, M.P., exhibited a pair of 

 the rare Eupetes geislerorum, A. B. Meyer, 



This species had been described from German New Guinea 

 by Dr. Meyer, and had not before been seen in any English 

 collection, having hitherto been known only from the 

 types in the Dresden Museum. It was remarkable for the 

 difterent colour of the sexes ; and examples collected by 



