13G Bulletin of the British 



XII. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. XX. & XXI. 



No. XX. (Oct. 31st, 1894.) 



The nineteenth meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 24th of October, 1894. 



Chairman : Henry Seebohm. 



Members present : — W. E. De Winton, E. Hargitt, A. P. 

 LoYD, F. Menteith Ogilvie, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Digby 

 PiGOTT, C.B., Count Salvador!, Henry Seebohm, R. 

 BowDLER Sharpe, G. E. Shelley, W. B. Tegetmeier, H. 

 T. Wharton, Johnson Wilkinson, C. A. Wright. 



Visitors : C. E. Fagan, C. B. Rickett. 



The Chairman announced that, owing to domestic be- 

 reavement. Dr. Sclater was unable to attend the Meeting, 

 and tliat his Annual Address to the B.O.C. would be post- 

 poned to the next Meeting, in November. 



Count Salvadori made some remarks on the Ducks of 

 the genera Anas and Nyroca, the following being apparently 

 new to science: — 



Anas oustaleti, sp. n. 

 Similis A. superciliosa, sed speculo alari cceruleo-purpureo 



paullum viridi nitente, taenia alb^ ante-speculari dis- 



tinguenda. 

 Hab. in insulis Mariannis. Typus in Museo Parisiensi. 



Nyroca innotata, sp. n. 

 Similis N. leiicophthalmfe , sed capitis, colli, pectorisque colore 

 castaneo valde saturatiore : torque collari fusco nuUo, 

 et macula mentali alba deficiente, distinguenda. 

 Hab. in insula Madagascar dicta. Typus in Museo Bri- 

 tannico. 



Mr.W. R. Ogilvie-Gbant exhibited a series of specimens of 

 the birds collected by Mr. JohnWhitehead in the mountains of 

 Northern Luzon. Two species appeared to be undescribed : — 



