Ornithologists' Club. 401 



Visitors: 13oyd Alexander^ A. Cholmondelev^ Bertram 

 Danford, R.E.J N. H. Joy^ C. M. Digby Pigott, H. Stevens. 



Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a specimen of Oceano- 

 droma cryptoleucura from the collection of Mr. IJoyd 

 Alexander. The bird in question was picked up dead on the 

 beach at Littlestoue^ in Kent, on the 5th of December, 

 1895, and was seen in the flesh by Mr. Alexander. This 

 "was the first instance of the occurrence of the species in 

 Great Britain. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe exhibited a specimen of the Icterine 

 Warbler [Hy polais iderinu) , o\)i^\nG,(\ m?iv Wells, in Norfolk, 

 by Mr. N. H. Joy. 



Mr. Walter Chamberlain exhibited photographs of some 

 interesting birds which he had living in confinement, one of 

 them being an Australian Crane, which had walked with a 

 wooden leg for the past few years. He also showed some 

 interesting examples of radiography taken by himself. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited specimens of 

 his new species, Astrapia splendidissima, and of the three 

 known species of Amblyornis. 



Mr. E. BiDWELL exhibited, by the kind permission of 

 Mr. Henry Stevens, an egg of the Great Auk (Alca inipen?iis). 

 This egg had been purchased on tiic 23rd of May, 1841, from 

 F. Schultz, of Dresden, by Hugh Reid, of Doncaster, who 

 sold it in the same year to the late Mr. James Hack Tuke, 

 of Hitchin, in whose collection it had remained up to the 

 present time. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert pointed out the differences between 

 the Masked Grosbeak of Japan {Eophona personata) and tlie 

 form found in Amur-land, and exhibited specimens of both 

 races. He proposed to call the Siberian form 



Eophona personata magnirostkis, subsp. n. 

 Similis E. personata, ex insulis Japonicis, sed rostro multo 

 majore (maris culm. 29 mm. nee 22), scapularihus 

 uropygioque grisesceutioribus distinguenda. 



