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Mr. Bartlett has been so good as to inform me that he has 

 verified this by observations, during a long series of years, on 

 specimens that have been placed in the Gardens of the 

 Zoological Society of London. 



Yours &c., 



J. H. GURNEY. 



Anniversary Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union. 



The Annual Meeting of the B.O.U. for 1883 was held at 

 6 Tenterden Street on Wednesday, the 80th of May, at 

 G P.M., Lord Lilford, the President of the Union, in the 

 Chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read 

 and confirmed, the accounts for the volume of ' The Ibis ' for 

 1882 (copies of which were on the tabid) were discussed and 

 passed. 



The Secretary to the Committee appointed in 1877 

 to prepare a list of British Birds read the report, and copies 

 of the List of British Birds were placed on the table. The 

 report of the Committee was adopted, on the resolution of 

 Mr. Sclater, seconded by Mr. Howard Saunders. A vote of 

 thanks to the Committee was proposed by Mr. C. B. Wharton, 

 seconded by Canon Tristram, and carried ; and Mr. Sclater 

 returned thanks on behalf of the Committee. 



It was then proposed by Mr. W. T. Blanford, and seconded 

 by Mr. Tegetmeier, that the Committee be authorized to 

 arrange with Mr. Van Voorst as to the publishing price of 

 the List of British Birds ; and this resolution was put to the 

 meeting and carried. 



The following new Members were then balloted for and 

 duly elected : — 



Ordinary Members. James Davidson, 32 Drumsheugh 

 Gardens, Edinburgh; Henry Parker, C.E., Public Works 

 Department, Ceylon ; Edmund Gustavus Bloomfield Meade- 

 Waldo, Rope Hill, Lymington, Hants ; Lewis Vernon Har- 

 court, 7 Grafton Street, London, W. ; William Herbert St. 

 Quintin, Scampston Hall, Rillington, Yorks ; Scrope B. 

 Doig, Public Works Department, Bombay ; and T. M. Pike, 

 Westport, Wareham. 



