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vouring to make the new ' Handlist ' as complete as possible. 

 An attempt would be made in this new edition to incorporate 

 all the fossil birds in their systematic places. 



Mr. ScLATER exhibited a skin of a Tanager {CaUiste 

 pretiosa) which had been obtained by Mr. A. H. Holland at 

 his residence, Estancia Sta. Elena, in the Argentine Republic, 

 on November 15th, 1897. It appeared to be in full adult 

 plumage, and was labelled " (^ . Bill, legs, and iris black." 



Mr. Sclater remarked that this was the first occurrence 

 of this species in the Argentine Republic, it having been 

 previously known only from Paraguay and South Brazil 

 (see Sclater, Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. 114). 



Mr. Philip Crowley exhibited some photographs of the 

 nests and eggs of British Birds. 



No. LIX. (January 30th, 1899). 



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

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 18th of January, 1899. Chairman: P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Twenty-six Members and one guest were present. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe laid on the table a copy of a MS. 

 " Index " to the generic names employed in the ' Catalogue 

 of Birds,^ which had been prepared by Mr. F. H. Waterhouse 

 and presented by Dr. Sclater to the Natural History Museum, 

 for the use of students in the Bird-room of that institution. 

 The Committee had agreed that this work should be pub- 

 lished as an extra volume of the ' Bulletin ' of the B. O. C. 



Dr. Sharpe exhibited a specimen of a Petrel of the genus 

 (Estrelata which had been forwarded to him by Dr. J. von 

 Madarasz, of the Hungarian National Museum at Budapest. 

 This was the specimen which had been determined as 

 (E. hcEsitata [cf. Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1884, p. 202), and as 



