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44. Lepterodius gularis. 



Lepterodius gularis (Bosc) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 sxvi. p. 114. 



Herodias gularis Reichen. Vog. Deutscb-Ost-Afr. p. 66 

 (1891). 



Arde a gularis Shelley, B. Africa., i. p. 157 (1896). 

 a, ad. Witu. 



45. Pternistes humboldti. 



Ptermstes humboldti Peters; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 176; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 179 (1896). 

 No. 1, 6 ad. Witu, June 28, 1891.— Iris brown; legs 

 bright coral-red ; bill, etc., dull dark red. 



XII. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. XLVII. & XLVIII. 



No. XLVII. (October 31st, 1897.) 



The forty-sixth meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 20th of October, 1897. Chairman : Philip Crowley, Esq. 

 Thirty-four Members and teu guests were present. 



Mr. H. L. PoPHAM made some remarks on his recent 

 journey to the Yenesei, and exhibited a clutch of four eggs 

 of the Curlew Sandpiper {Tringa subarquata) Avhich he 

 had taken on an island in the Yenesei in July last, when he 

 shot the female bird from the nest. These were the first 

 authentic eggs of this bird on record. 



Mr. H. J. Pearson and Colonel Feilden gave a brief 

 account of their expedition to Novaya Zemlya during the 

 past summer. Mr. Pearson exhibited a series of clutches of 

 the eggs of the Little Stint [Trivga minuta), as well as some 

 beautiful photographs of nests and eggs of the various birds 

 observed on the voyage. The narrative of the trip was 

 related by Colonel Feilden, and was rendered specially 

 interesting by the photographs taken and exhibited by 

 Mr. Pearson. 



