308 Bfillethi of the British 



sharply cut oft' from the red and bhie holders, which ai-e 

 plain and smooth. 



Hah. Aru Islands, ? Trangan Island. (Spec, in vivario 

 Rothschildiano.) 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited a very fine specimen 

 of a hybrid Pheasant, Phasianus reevesi ? X Phasianus 

 colchicus ^ . 



No. LX. (February 27th, 1899). 



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

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 15th of February, 1899. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Thirty-eight Members and nine guests were present. 



Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a specimen of a 

 Levantine Shearwater {Puffinus yelkouanus) which had been 

 shot by a wildfowler near Scarborough on the 5th of this 

 month. The bird was a male, and had been sent in the 

 flesh to the British Museum for determination. 



Mr. H. J. Pearson exhibited, on behalf of Mr. W. Eagle 

 Clarke, a female Grey Phaiarope {Phalaropus fulicarius) in 

 full breeding-plumage. This specimen had been procured 

 by Mr. W. S. Bruce on Kostin Point, at the southern 

 extremity of Meshdoshapsk Island, oft" the south coast of 

 Novaya Zemlya, on the 19th of June, 1898. It was one 

 of a pair, which Mr. Bruce was convinced were breeding 

 on the island. This was the first record of the species in 

 any part of Novaya Zemlya. 



Mr. E. BiDWELL exhibited a birds'-nesting stick, which 

 had been found to be of great utility in his expeditions 

 with Mr. H. J. Pearson, who also testified to the excelleiit 

 results obtained by the invention. 



