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The Rev. H. H. Slater exhibited and made remarks 

 upon a sixth British example of the Barred Warbler {Sylvia 

 nisoria), Avhich he had obtained on the Norfolk coast on the 

 27th of August last. It was an adult female, which had 

 evidently bred daring the last season, as was shown by the 

 condition of the ovary and oviduct. He thought that by 

 careful search the Barred Warbler might be ascertained to 

 be a breeding species in the Eastern Counties. 



No. XLVIII. (November 29th, 1897). 



The forty-seventh Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 17th of November, 181)7. Chairman: P. L. Sclater, Esq., 

 r.R.S. Twenty-nine Members and four guests present. 



The Chairman gave the following address : — 

 "There is probably no greater test of the interest taken 

 in a particular subject in these days than the establishment 

 of a journal or periodical specially devoted to its cause. 

 This fact is so obvious that I need not stop to give instances 

 of its being the case. On this occasion, therefore, I propose 

 to offer you a few remarks on the present state and progress 

 of the Journals devoted to the special interests of the Class 

 Aves throughout the civilized world, and shall begin with 

 the three Avhich, I think, must be acknowledged by all of us 

 to be the leading authorities on the subject, viz. — (taking 

 them in the order of seniority), the 'Journal fiir Ornithologie' 

 of Berlin, 'The Ibis' of London, and 'The Auk' of the 

 United States of America. 



" The * Journal fiir Ornithologie ' was founded by the 

 veteran ornithologist Dr. Jean Cabanis in 1853, and carried on 

 by him with unfailing success for a period of forty-one years. 

 In 1894 it passed into the possession of the ' Allgemeine 

 deutsche ornithologische Gesellschaft,' and has since that 

 date been not less successfully conducted for that Society 

 by our Honorary Member, Dr. Anton Reichenow, who is 



