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b. Inner webs of primaries and secondaries narrowly 

 margined with pale rufous; greater wing-coverts 

 brown, with narrow yellowish-white or buif 

 margins. General colour of the head brown, 

 washed with greenish, similar to the rest of the 

 upper parts. Average size of wing 3"9 inches . . P. chysotis. 



XXIII. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. XXXI.-XXXIII. 



No. XXXI. (Dec. 30tli, 1895.) 



The thirtieth meeting of the Club was held at the Restaurant 

 Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 18th of 

 December, 1895. 



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



Members present : — G. Barrett-Hamilton, K. M. Bar- 

 KiNGTON, E. Bidwell, Col. C. T. Bingham, J. L. Bon- 

 HOTE, Philip Crowley, W. E. De Winton, W. Graham, 

 W. R. Ogilvie Grant, Ernst Hartert, Major A. P. Loyd, 

 J. G. Millais, R. Nesham, H. J. Pearson, Erank Penrose, 

 Howard Saunders [Treasurer), R. Bowdler Sharpe {Edi- 

 tor), Capt. G. E. Shelley, Rev. H. H. Slater, C. A. Wright, 

 John Young. 



Visitors : F. V. McConnell, H. Stevens, W. N. Wood. 



The Chairman spoke of the loss which the Club had sus- 

 tained since its last meeting, by the death of Mr. Henry 

 Seebohm, of whose life and work he gave a short account. He 

 proposed that a message of condolence be sent to the family, 

 and this was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Sclater also ex- 

 pressed a hope that some means would be found to publish 

 the 'Monograph of the Turdidse,^ which Mr. Seebohm had 

 left in a forward state. 



Mr. J. G. Millais exhibited photographs of Swallows' 

 nests built in the branches of stags' horns at Warnham 

 Court. One of these nests had been so built for nine years 

 in succession. 



