Bulletin of the British OrnltJioluylsts' Club. 611 



LII. — Bulletin of the BrltlsJi Ornltholoylsts^ Club. 



No. LV. (June 30th, 1898). 



The fifth-fourth Meeting of the Club was held at the Restau- 

 rant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 22nd of 

 June, 1898. Chairman: P. L. Sclatek, F.R.S. Twenty-one 

 Members and one visitor were present. 



The Chairman referred to the loss which the Club had 

 recently suffered by the deaths of Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S. , 

 and Mr. A. H. Everett; and expressions of symj)athy with 

 the families of the deceased were unanimously passed. 



Mr. Sclatek exhibited the skins of two birds obtained by 

 Capt. Wellby at high elevations during his recent adventurous 

 journey across Northern Tibet. These were referred to 

 Syrrhaptes tlbetanus, shot on June 21st, 1897, in lat. 34° 59'' 

 long. 82° 30', at an elevation of 17,130 feet, and a Hoopoe 

 {Upupa epops), shot on the 28tli of July, 1897, in lat. 35° 20', 

 long. 88° 30', at an altitude of 16,090 feet. 



Mr. H. Saunders made some remarks upon a recent visit 

 to Ireland, in company with Mr. R. J. Ussher, and stated 

 that there did not seem to be any danger of the extennination 

 of the Peregrine or the Chough in the south and west. 

 Eagles were becoming scarce in the west, chiefly owing to 

 poison laid out for foxes and Hooded Crows. A considerable 

 number of White Wagtails [Motacilla alba) passed along 

 Killala Bay early in May, and an adult, with cotton-grass in 

 its bill, was observed by Messrs. Ussher, Warren, and 

 Saunders on June 10th, near BelmuUet, co. Mayo. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild sent for exhibition some 

 very interesting photographs of places and episodes of bird- 

 life in the Galapagos Islands, which had been taken by 

 the naturalists attached to the recent expedition to the 

 Archipelago. 



Dr. R. BovvDLER Sharpe gave a short account of his 

 recent visit to the Smolen Islands in Northern Norway, and 



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