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Dr. BowDLER Sharpe made some remarks on receut 

 papers by Dr. J. A. Allen and Mr. Frank M. Chapman on 

 the changes of colour in the plumage of birds without moult. 

 Dr. Allen especially disagreed with the conclusions put 

 forward by the late Edward Blyth and other Enghsh 

 and German naturalists. As regarded the points in which 

 Dr. Allen differed from the conclusions of Dr. Sharpe^ the 

 latter reaffirmed his conviction on the subject, and could 

 not endorse Dr. Allen's views. 



A discussion followed, in which the Hon. Walter Roth- 

 schild, Mr. Howard Saunders, Mr. John Young, Mr. 

 Hartert, and others took part, but, owing to the lateness of 

 the hour, the debate was adjourned until the next meeting 

 of the Club on May 20th, when Mr. Ogilvie Grant, 

 Mr. J. G. Millais, Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, and other ornithologists, promised to bring 

 specimens to illustrate their opinions on the subject. 



Mr. Philip Crowley moved a resolution of sympathy 

 with Count Salvadori, an universally esteemed member of 

 the B.O.C., in the long and painful illness from which he 

 was suffering. This was carried unanimously. 



No. XXXVI. (May 30th, 1896.) 



The thirty-fifth meetmg of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 20th of May, 1896. 



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



Members present : — E. Bidwell, Philip Crowley, W. E. 

 De Winton, J. H. Gurney, Ernst Hartert, J. G. Millais, 

 W. R. Ogilvie Grant, F. Penrose, A. B. R. Trevor- 

 Battye, C. a. Wright. 



A paper, illustrated by specimens, was read from Dr. E. 



