elected unless two-tliirds of the number balloting shall vote 

 in his favour. Ordinary Members only are entitled to 

 vote. Honorary, Honorary Lady, Colonial, and Foreign 

 Members, when there are vacancies in the list, shall be 

 elected in the same way. 



4. No person shall be balloted for whose name shall not 

 have been proposed on a form provided for the purpose by 

 the Secretary and signed by the Proposer, on his personal 

 knowledge, and by two other Members. Catididates for 

 Honorary, Foreign, and Colonial ]\[embership siiall be 

 ])roposed l)y tlie Committee only. Ordinary INlembers 

 wishing to recommend Candidates for these honours should 

 communicate with the Secretary, who will bring the names 

 of their Candidates before the Committee. The list of 

 Candidates, uith their Proposers and Seconders shall be 

 circulated among the Members at least fourteen days before 

 the Ballot along with the summonses for the General 

 Meeting. 



5. Every New Ordinary Member shall pay an Entrance 

 Fee of £2, and an Annual Subscription of .€1 on his election, 

 and every Ordinary jNIember shall pay an Annual Subscrip- 

 tion of £"1 on the 1st of January of each year. Every new 

 Ordinary Member failing to pay his Entrance Fee and his 

 first Annual Subscription before the 31st of December 

 immediately following his election shall have his election 

 annulled, unless he shall furnish a satisfactory explanation. 



6. Any Member whose subscription is three years in 

 arrears shall, ipso facto, cease to belong to the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, but shall be eligible for re-election 

 by Ballot on paying up his arrears. In such case, however, 

 no fee for re-admission shall be required. 



7. If, in the opinion of the Committee, any Member shall 

 have acted in a manner injurious to the interests or good 

 name of the Union, or shall have peisonally assisted in or 

 connived at the capture or destruction of any bird, nest, or 

 eggs in the British Isles, by purchase or otherwise, likely in 

 the opinion of the Committee, to lead to the extermination 

 or serious diminution of that species as a British bird, the 



