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Captain William Kenneth Bigger, R.A.jNI.C. 



Captain H. Brocklebank. 



Edgar P. Chance. 



Walter Edward Collinge, D.Sc, M.Sc., F.L.S., 



F.E.S. 

 Nina Johnstone Douglas. 

 Captain Tom George Longstaff. 

 The Rt. Hon. E. S. Montagu, M.P. 

 Wesley Theodore Page. F.Z.S. 

 Theodore Richard Robinson. 

 The Hon, Guy Lawrence Wemyss-Charteris. 



Mr. Leonhard Stejneger, C.M.Z.S., a Foreign Member, 

 was elected Honorary Member. 



M. A. Menegaux was elected an Honorary Member. 



Mr. Outram Bangs, Dr. Roberto Dabbene. Dr. Joseph 

 Grinuell, and Count Nils Gyldenstolpe were elected Foreign 

 Members. 



Mr. Percy A. Taverner was elected a Colonial Member. 



Mr. W. L. Sclater announced that the Committee of the 

 British Ornithologists'' Union had appointed a Special Com- 

 mittee to prepare and publish a new List of the Birds of the 

 World in conjunction with the American Ornithologists' 

 Union. 



The Special Committee proposed are : — 



Messrs. E. C. Stuart Baker, C. Chubb, W. Eagle 

 Clarke, E. Hartert, T. Iredale, G. M. Mathews, 

 Lord Rothschild, and W. L. Sclater. 



The Committee has already met on several occasions and 

 has been in communication with the Secretary of the 

 American Ornithologists'' Union, who has replied that his 

 Union will gladly co-operate with the B, O. U. in preparing 

 the work. It is proposed to publish a series oi: six volumes 

 under the title of ' Systema Avium,' containing a list of 

 the birds of the six zoo-geographical regions, i. e. Palaearctic, 

 Indian, Ethiopian, Australian, Nearctic, and Neotropical. 



A fuller notice of the proposed ' Systema Avium ' Avill 



