Aimiversdiy Meeiln^^ of the B. O. U. 497 



^'G'jDICXemus senegalensts Swaius. 



M'Carthy Island, February 2, 181)i). Common. 



*Sarciopi]orus tectus (R()(1(1.). 



M'Cardiy Island, March 12, 1899. Very {common at this 

 season. 



*IjOBIVA\ELLUS senegalus (L.). 



M'Carthy Island, November 13, 1898. Very common at 

 this season. 



Glareola pratixcola (L). 

 Quinela, March 29, 1899. 



■^Phalacrocorax lucidus (Licht.). 



Juv, M'Carthy Island, March 5, 1899. Very common. 



XXXVI. — Proceedings at the Anniversary Meeting of the 

 British Ornitliologists' Unio?i, 1901. 



The Annual General Meeting of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union was held in the rooms of the Zoological Society of 

 London, 3 Hanover Square (by permission of the Council of 

 that Society), on Wednesday, the 15th May, at 5.30 p.m.. 

 Dr. F. DuCane Godman, FIl.S., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last Annual Meeting having been read 

 and confirmed, the Report of the Committee was read. It 

 stated that since the last Anniversary the Union had suffered 

 the loss, by death, of two Ordinary Members (Mr. Philip 

 Crowley and Mr. C. W. Wyatt), of one Honorary Member 

 (Dr. Gustav Hartlaub), and of one Foreign Member (Baron 

 de Selys Longchamps). 



The number of the Members of the Union was stated to 

 be 370, consisting of 342 Ordinary, 2 Extraordinary, 9 

 Honorary, and 17 Foreign Members. There were 13 can- 

 didates for the Ordinary Membership, and one (who had been 

 removed under the operation of Rule 6, but under circum- 

 stances which had now been satisfactorily explained) for 

 Re-election. 



The Committee Avas glad to report that the prosperity of 

 the Union had continued unabated during the past year. 



