432 Bulletin of the British 



No. LIII. (April 30tli, 1898) . 



The fifty-second Meeting of tlie Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 20th of April, 1898. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Thirty-one Members and seven guests were present. 



Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton exhibited some specimens 

 of birds from Kamchatka obtained during his recent trips to 

 the North Pacific, the most interesting being an apparently 

 new species of Nutcracker, which he described as follows : — 



NUCIFRAGA KAMCHATKENSIS, Sp. n. 



N. similis N. caryocatacti, sed nigra, nee brunnescens, et 

 remigibus ad apicem albo maculatis vel marginatis. 

 N. muUipimctata potiiis affinis, et maculis albis naagnis 

 ornata, sed area alba rectricum terminali minus ex- 

 tensa (1-3-1-5). Long. tot. 13*0 poll., culm. 1-85, alae 

 7-2, caudse 4-6, tarsi 1-55. 



Mr. Reginald B. Lodge exhibited some of his ' Photo- 

 graphs of Bird Life,' which included figures o£ many British 

 Birds, as well as of other species from the marshes of 

 Holland and Southern Spain. 



Mr. Heatley Noble brought for exhibition an e^^ of the 

 Great Auk recently acquired by him, and gave a history of 

 the specimen. 



Mr. H. L. PoPHAM exhibited ?ome clutches of eggs of 

 different species of Thrushes procured by him during his 

 journey to the Yenesei Valley, among which were series of 

 those of Turdus obscurus and Geocichla sihirica. 



Mr. Joseph I. S. Whitaker sent a description of an appa- 

 rently new species of Shore-Lark from the Atlas Mountains 

 in Morocco, and proposed for it the name 



Otocorys atlas, sp. n. 



^ . Similis 0. elwesi et regione nigra parotic^, minime cum 

 fascia pectorali conjuncta : frontis basi nigr^ : tec- 



