Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 115 



17. Nettion PUNCTATUM (Burch.) : Salvad. Cat. B. xxvii. 

 p. 265. 



Querquedula hottentota Sharpe, op. cit. p. 757. 



Male. 11/9/98. Lake Barana, Inhambane. 



''Legs and feet turquoise-blue, inclined to leaden; bill 

 black from the nostrils, the black part widening out and 

 almost covering the entire bill at the point ; basal part of 

 the bill below the nostrils turquoise, running into a very 

 narrow line towards the point and continuing right round ; 

 lower mandible more leaden, soft skin between ; iris black." — 

 H. F. F. 



IX. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. LVI. & LVII. 



No. LVI. (October 31st, 1898). 



The fifty-fifth Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 19th of October, 1898. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Forty-two Members and seven guests were present. 



The Treasurer announced that the first business of the 

 Meeting was to choose the Officers of the Club for the new 

 Session, and the following were unanimously elected by 

 show of hands : — 



Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Philip Crowley. 

 H. J. Pearson. 



Vice- Chairmen < 



Mr. W. E. De Winton was elected a Member of the 

 Committee in the place of Major A. P. Loyd, who retired by 

 rotation. 



The Chairman gave the following address : — 

 Brother AIembers of the B. O. C. — 



On opening the Seventh Session of the British Orni- 

 thologists'' Club, I will venture to trouble you with a few 

 words. 



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