128 Bulletin of the British 



70. Fregata minor (Gmel.) ; Bourns & Worcester, t. c. 

 p. 32. 



The Lesser Frigate-bird obtained at Cape Engano com- 

 pletes the list. 



X. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. XXIX. & XXX. . 



No. XXIX, (Oct. 31st, 1895.) 



The twenty-eighth meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 23rd of October, 1895. 



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



Members present : — O. Barrett-Hamilton, E. Bidwell, 

 Philip Crowley, W. E. De Winton, A. H. Evans, Major 

 A. P. LoYD, E. Neale, R. Nesham, W. R. Ogilvie Grant, 

 C. E. Pearson, H. J. Pearson, Frank Penrose, T. Digby 

 PiGOTT, C.B., Howard Saunders {Treasurer), Henry See- 

 BOHM, R. BowDLER Sharpe [Editov) , Capt. G. E. Shelley, 

 W. B. Tegetmeier, H. M. Wallis, C. A. Wright. 



Visitors : Dr. F. D. Drewitt, C. E. Fagan, Sir William 

 Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S., Sir Henry Howorth, K.C.I.E., 

 F.R.S. 



The Chairman read the following Address to the Club: — 



On taking the Chair at the first meeting of the Fourth Session 

 of the B. O. C, I propose to address to you a few remarks on 

 recent events in Ornithology. Before commencing these, 

 however, I must express the regret which all the Members of 

 the Club will feel at the loss we have lately suffered by the 

 death of our friend and colleague, Henry Thornton Wharton, 

 who was well known to us as an expert in British Orni- 

 thology, and as the author of a useful list of British Birds, 

 published in 1877. He was also the active and efiicient 

 Secretary of the Committee for the preparation of the 



