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  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

  

  Chairman: 
  P. 
  L. 
  Scl<^ter, 
  F.R.S. 
  

  

  Members 
  present 
  : 
  — 
  E. 
  Bidwell, 
  W. 
  Eagle 
  Clarke, 
  

   Philip 
  Crowley, 
  W, 
  Graham, 
  A. 
  P. 
  Loyd, 
  St. 
  George 
  

   MivART, 
  F.R.S. 
  , 
  H. 
  J. 
  Pearson, 
  Robert 
  H. 
  Read, 
  Count 
  

   T. 
  Salvadori, 
  Howard 
  Saunders, 
  Henry 
  Seebohm, 
  Dr. 
  R. 
  

   BowDLER 
  Sharpe, 
  Capt. 
  Horace 
  Terry, 
  "VV. 
  B. 
  Tegetmeier, 
  

   J. 
  T. 
  Tristram-Valentine, 
  Charles 
  A. 
  Wright, 
  John 
  

   Young. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Howard 
  Saunders 
  informed 
  the 
  Meeting 
  that 
  the 
  

   number 
  of 
  Members 
  who 
  had 
  joined 
  the 
  Club 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  

   19th 
  of 
  October 
  was 
  GO. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  ScLATER 
  announced 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  received 
  for 
  'The 
  

   Ibis 
  ' 
  an 
  excellent 
  Memoir 
  on 
  the 
  birds 
  of 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  

   Aden, 
  prepared 
  by 
  Lieut. 
  Henry 
  E. 
  Barnes, 
  M.B.O.U., 
  

   and 
  lately 
  attached 
  to 
  the 
  Commissariat 
  Department 
  at 
  

   Aden. 
  It 
  contained 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  126 
  species 
  of 
  birds 
  

   collected 
  or 
  observed 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Aden. 
  Mr. 
  Sclater 
  

   exhibited 
  some 
  specimens 
  sent 
  home 
  by 
  Lieut. 
  Barnes 
  from 
  

   Aden 
  for 
  examination. 
  Amongst 
  these 
  were 
  examples 
  

   of 
  Falco 
  barbarus, 
  Halcyon 
  semicceruleus 
  , 
  and 
  Coturnix 
  

   delegorguei, 
  which 
  last 
  was 
  stated 
  to 
  be 
  equally 
  abundant 
  

   near 
  Aden 
  with 
  C. 
  communis. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Henry 
  Seebohm 
  exhibited 
  some 
  interesting 
  species 
  

   of 
  birds 
  procured 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Hoist 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Loo-Choo 
  ' 
  or 
  ' 
  Liu 
  

   Kiu 
  ' 
  Islands. 
  The 
  collection 
  would 
  be 
  fully 
  described 
  in 
  the 
  

   January 
  number 
  of 
  ' 
  The 
  Ibis/ 
  

  

  Dr. 
  R. 
  Bowdler 
  Sharpe 
  called 
  attention 
  to 
  a 
  collection 
  

   of 
  birds 
  recently 
  received 
  by 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  Museum 
  

   from 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  H. 
  Everett, 
  the 
  well-known 
  Bornean 
  traveller. 
  

   Among 
  other 
  interesting 
  specimens 
  Mr. 
  Everett 
  had 
  sent 
  skins 
  

   of 
  Motacilla 
  melanope 
  from 
  the 
  Baram 
  River, 
  and 
  an 
  adult 
  of 
  

   the 
  true 
  Peregrine 
  Falcon 
  [Falco 
  communis), 
  not 
  the 
  dark 
  

   Sunda 
  race, 
  from 
  Pappan 
  Island, 
  Labuan, 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  

   procured 
  in 
  February 
  1892. 
  Among 
  the 
  migratory 
  species 
  of 
  

   which 
  examples 
  had 
  been 
  sent 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Everett 
  was 
  a 
  specimen 
  

  

  