﻿Ornithologists' 
  Club, 
  445 
  

  

  Dr. 
  BowDLER 
  Sharpe 
  made 
  some 
  remarks 
  illustrated 
  by 
  

   diagrams, 
  on 
  fossil 
  birds, 
  showing 
  our 
  present 
  state 
  of 
  

   knowledge 
  of 
  extinct 
  species. 
  

  

  No. 
  IX. 
  (June 
  1st, 
  1893.) 
  

  

  The 
  eighth 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Club 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  the 
  Restaurant 
  

   Frascati, 
  32 
  Oxford 
  Street, 
  on 
  Wednesday, 
  the 
  17th 
  of 
  

   May, 
  1893, 
  

  

  Chairman 
  : 
  Henry 
  Seebohm. 
  

  

  Members 
  present 
  :— 
  E. 
  Bidwell, 
  W. 
  E. 
  De 
  Winton, 
  H. 
  E. 
  

   Dresser, 
  H. 
  O. 
  Forbes, 
  W. 
  Graham, 
  E. 
  Hartert, 
  A, 
  P. 
  

   Lloyd, 
  F. 
  Penrose, 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild, 
  Howard 
  

   Saunders 
  [Treasurer), 
  R. 
  Bowdler 
  Sharpe, 
  Charles 
  Ston- 
  

   ham. 
  Col. 
  R. 
  W. 
  Studdy, 
  J. 
  T. 
  Tristram-Valentine, 
  H. 
  M. 
  

   Upcher. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  H. 
  0. 
  Forbes 
  exhibited 
  the 
  eggs 
  of 
  some 
  rare 
  species 
  

   of 
  birds 
  from 
  the 
  Chatham 
  Islands, 
  amongst 
  which 
  were 
  

   those 
  of 
  Thinornis 
  novce 
  zealandiie 
  and 
  Gallinago 
  pusilla, 
  of 
  

   which 
  birds 
  the 
  nestlings 
  were 
  also 
  shown. 
  He 
  also 
  exhibited 
  

   the 
  egg 
  of 
  Cabalus 
  modestus, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  obtained 
  on 
  

   Mangare, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  Chatham 
  group, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Hawkins. 
  

   The 
  egg 
  was 
  white, 
  but 
  its 
  Ralline 
  character 
  was 
  indicated 
  by 
  

   a 
  faint 
  double 
  spotting 
  of 
  grey 
  and 
  rufous. 
  It 
  measured 
  : 
  — 
  

   axis 
  1-45, 
  diam. 
  I'l. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Forbes 
  also 
  exhibited 
  adult 
  males, 
  females, 
  and 
  young 
  

   birds 
  of 
  Cabalus 
  modestus, 
  and 
  remarked 
  that 
  there 
  could 
  

   now 
  be 
  no 
  question 
  of 
  the 
  validity 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  as 
  distinct 
  

   from 
  C. 
  dieffenbachii, 
  and 
  that 
  he 
  must 
  retract 
  his 
  former 
  

   opinion 
  on 
  this 
  point 
  (above, 
  p. 
  253). 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Bowdler 
  Sharpe 
  observed 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  singular 
  fact 
  

   that 
  this 
  little 
  Rail 
  should 
  possess 
  in 
  its 
  adult 
  plumage 
  the 
  

  

  