438 Bulletin of the British 



XXXIV. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. XLIII.-XLV. 



No. XLIII. (March 31st, 1897.) 



The forty-second Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, tlie 

 17th of March, 1897. 



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



Members present : — E. Bidwell, F. C. Crawford, P. 

 Crowley, W. E. De Winton, A. H. Evans, John Ger- 



RARD, W. R. OgILVIE GraNT, J. G. MiLLAIS, P. W. MUNN, 



E. Neale, R. Nesham, Heatley Noble, C. E. Pearson, 

 H, J. Pearson, H. L. Popham, H. Saunders {Treasurer)^ 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe {Editor), W. B. Tegetmeier, N. F. 

 TicEHURST, A. B. R. Trevor-Battye, H. M. Wallis, Watkin 

 Watkins. 



Visitors : C. E. Fagan, E. F. Fenwick, H. Warrand, 

 Ronald Webber, John Whitehead. 



The Treasurer informed the meeting of the death o£ an 

 esteemed member o£ the Club, Mr. William Graham. It 

 was unanimously voted that a letter of condolence should 

 be sent to Mr. Graham^s family. 



Mr. H. L. PoPHAM exhibited some interesting birds and 

 eggs from the Yenesei River, including eggs of Bernicla 

 riificollis, Limosa lapponica, Phalaropvs fnlicarius, Emberiza 

 jmsilla, Turdus fuscatus, Geocichla sibirica (probably), and 

 Stercorarius pomatorhinus, the eggs of the last-named bird 

 being almost the first authentic ones ever shown . Mr. Popham 

 also showed the eggs o£ the Wood-Sandpiper laid in an old 

 Fieldfare^s nest, with a specimen of the bird shot therefrom. 



Mr. J. G. Millais exhibited a male Phasianus colchicus 

 assuming female plumage, an extremely rare occurrence. 

 He also showed a Wigeon {Mareca penelope) and some 

 Common Redstarts [Ruticilla phcenicura) in which the same 

 phenomenon was apparent. 



