392 Bulletin of the British 



XXXVI. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. XXXIV.-XXXVI. 



No. XXXIV. (March 31st, 1896.) 



The Thirty-third meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 18th of March, 1896. 



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

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

 Col. C. T. Bingham, J. H. Bonhote, W. E. De Winton, 

 A. DowsETT, H. E. Dresser, H. J. Elwes, A. H. Evans, 

 J. Gerrard, W. Graham, W. R. Ogilvie Grant, Ernst 

 Hartert, J. E. Harting, P. M. C. Kermode, Major A. P. 

 LoYD, A. McL. Marshall, Jas. McL. Marshall, E. Neale, 

 R. Nesham, Heatley Noble, F. Menteith Ogilvie, C. E. 

 Pearson, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, R. H. Read, Capt. 

 Savile G. Reid, Hon. Chas. Rothschild, Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, Howard Saunders [Treasurer), R. Bowdler 

 Sharps [Editor), Charles Stonham, E. Priaulx Tennant, 

 Major Horace Terry, H. M. Wallis, C. B. Wharton, 

 Johnson Wilkinson, C. A. Wright, Col. J. W. Yerbury, 

 John Young. 



Dining Visitors : J. W. Castle, W. E. Chapman, Capt. A. 

 CowiE, D. G. Elliot, George Evans, C. H. Freeman, W. 

 E. Graham, H. Ogilvie Grant, E. S. Grogan, Donaldson 

 GuNN, Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S., Col. F. W. James, 

 Herbert Massey, Henry Munt, John A. Norton, M.D., 

 Geo. Parkin, T. Perkins, H. Stevens, W. Murray Tuke, 

 W. F. Urwick, Dr. O. Wood. 



A number of visitors also attended the Meeting at 8.30. 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited one of the volumes of 

 original paintings of Woodpeckers, executed by the late 

 Mr. Edward Hargitt. The total number of coloured figures 

 was 1368, and on this stupendous task Mr. Hargitt had been 

 engaged for more than fourteen years. The pictures, — said 

 Dr. Sharpe, — as will be seen by the volume exhibited, repre- 



