300 Bulletin of the British 



Anthus rosaceus Hodgs. 

 A single example. 



PrOPASSER VINACEUS (VeiT.). 



Aquila chrvsaetus (Linn.). 



A handsome specimen, labelled ^ , but from its size more 

 probably ? . Wing 25 in. ; tail 14 in. 



In April this district was left, and the hunters, returning 

 to Chungking, made their way by river to Hankow, arriving 

 in May, just two years after the start. 



XXII. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists^ Club. 



Nos. LVIII.-LX. 



No. LVIII. (December 31st, 1898). 



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

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 21st of December, 1898. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Twenty-five Members and nine guests were present. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert characterized tliree new species of 

 birds from the Louisiade Archipelago. He said that this 

 group of islands, situated to the south-east of New Guinea, 

 had been visited by Macgillivray during the voyage of H.M.S. 

 ' Rattlesnake,' when a few birds had then been collected, 

 and that more recently Canon Tristram and Mr. De Vis had 

 described a few new forms from various islands of the group, 

 but no large collections of birds had ever been made there. 

 Mr. Albert S. Meek had recently stayed on various islands 

 of the group and collected a great number of bii'ds for 

 Mr. Rothschild's Museum. His collections showed that the 

 proportion of species and subspecies peculiar to this group of 

 islands was rather large, and that the various islands were 

 inhabited by different forms. A few new species had already 

 been described at former meetings of this Club, but exhaustive 

 articles would soon appear on the collections in the ' Novitates 

 Zoologicpe,' and were partly in the press. Examples of the 

 following new species were exhibited : — 



