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my observations are necessarily incomplete; but there must 

 be many field-naturalists to whom the subject is not new, 

 and who would be able to give trustworthy information 

 about many of the birds that I have been obliged to leave 

 for others to deal with. 



XXXIX. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 

 No. XXVIII. (June 29th, 1895.) 



The twenty-seventh meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 19th of June, 1895. 



Chairman-. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Members present : — E. Bidwell, F. E. Blaauw, W. E. De 

 WiNTON, W. Graham, Major A. P. Loyd, E. Neale, 

 R. Nesham, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Frank Penrose, Digby 

 PiGOTT, C.B., Hon. Walter Rothschild, Howard Saun- 

 ders {Treasurer) , R. Bowdler Sharpe {Editor), E. Caven- 

 dish Taylor, Major Horace Terry, W. B. Tegetmeier. 

 Visitors : Dr. Drewitt, Herbert Druce, Heer Renesse 



VAN DUIVENBODE, Dr. JoRDAN, HeNRY StEVENS. 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited a very curious variety 

 of the Common Rook, with white tips to nearly every feather 

 of the body. This specimen was one of several similarly 

 marked young birds procured in the same rookery during 

 the last spring. 



Mr. E. Bidwell exhibited an egg of the Great Auk [Alca 

 impennis), from Iceland: from the collection of Baron 

 d'Hamonville, and formerly in the collection of Count Raoul 

 de Berace. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited skins of some new 

 species of birds discovered by Mr. John Whitehead in the 

 mountains of Lepanto in Northern Luzon. They were 

 described by Mr. Grant as follows : — 



