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near Vladivostock^ and five specimens were now known, all 

 of them agreeing in the possession of a white nape-spot. It 

 would seem also that B. doerriesi had a nearly white tail when 

 fully adult. 



No. XXX. (Nov. 20th, 1895.) 



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

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on "Wednesday, the 

 20th of November, 1895. 



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



Members present : — E. Bidwell, Col. C. T. Bingham, 

 Philip Crowley, E. A. S. Elliot, E. W. De Winton, 

 Col. H. W. Feilden, John Gerrard, J. E. Harting, 

 W. H. Hudson, Major A. P. Loyd, J. G. Millais, Dr. St. 

 George Mivart, F.ll.S., R. Nesham, W. R. Ogilvie 

 Grant, H. J. Pearson, Frank Penrose, Evelyn Rawson, 

 Howard Saunders (7>easMre/'),R,BowDLERSHARPE(^c?i/or), 

 E. Cavendish Taylor, Major Horace Terry, A. Trevor- 

 Battye, W. B. Tegetmeier, C. A. Wright, J. Young. 



Visitors : Dr. F. D. Drewitt, H. Tabor Brooks, Admiral 

 A. H. Markham, Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., M.P., 

 H. Munt. 



Mr. Sclater called attention to the fine specimen of the 

 Spotted Redshank {Totanus fuscus) now living in the Fish 

 House in the Zoological Society's Gardens, and obtained 

 on October 17th, along with other waders, from Spalding 

 in Lincolnshire. It was the first specimen, so far as was 

 known, that had been received by the Zoological Society, 

 and Mr. Bartlett, in all his long experience, had never seen 

 a living specimen in captivity before. 



Mr. Sclater also exhibited a portrait (lithograph) of 

 Prof. Giglioli, presented by the latter to the British Orni- 

 thologists^ Union. 



Mr. Sclater stated that in view of the large amount of 



