290 Bulletin of the British 



XXII. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. XIII.-XV. 



No. XIII. (Dec. 30th, 1893.) 



The twelfth meeting of the Club was held at the Restaurant 

 Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 20th of 

 December, 1893. 



Chairman : Henry Seebohm. 



Members present : — E. Bidwell, P. Crowley, W. R. 

 Ogilvie Grant, E. Hartert, E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, T. J. 

 Monk, P. W. Munn, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, Howard 

 Saunders (Treasurer), R. Bowdler Sharpe [Editor], H. H. 

 Slater, F. W. Styan, A. B. R. Trevor-Battye. 



Visitor : J. M. Mitchell. 



Mr. Meade-Waldo exhibited a series of clutches of 

 curiously-marked eggs of the Common Blackcap [Sylvia 

 atricapilla) , from the Canary Islands. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited the type of a new species 

 of Snipe in the Tring Museum, for which the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild had furnished the following description : — 



" In No. IX. of the Bulletin Canon Tristram described 

 a new Snipe from the Snares under the name of Gallinago 

 hueyeli, and mentioned that the Snipe from Antipodes Island 

 would probably be also new. Having received a specimen 

 from that locality, I find Canon Tristram's surmise to be 

 right, and have much pleasure in naming the species after 

 him 



Gallinago tristrami, sp. n. 



" The new species is nearest in pattern to G. aucklandica, 

 Gray, but differs from its three allies in its deeper rufous- 

 brown colour and its much larger size. Under surface 

 brownish buff, with the flanks barred as in G. huegeli, Tristr., 

 and not lunulated as in G. aucklandica, Gray, and G. pvsilla, 

 Buller. Wing i'-t (4 in G. aucklandica, about 3"8 in G. 

 pusilla, 1'2 in G. huegeli), bill 2*6 (2*3 in G. aucklandica, 



