BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CXXXIX. 



The hundred and thirty-eighth Meeting of the Chib was held 

 at Pagani-'s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, W., 

 on AVednesday, the 15th of January, 1908. 



Chairman: P. L. Sclater, D.Sc., F.R.S. 



Members present : — Boyd Alexander, P. H. Bahr, E. 

 BiDWELL, H. E. Dresser, Lt.-Col. W. H. M. Duthie, E. V. 

 Earle, Guy L. Ewen, H. W. Finlinson, E. Gibson, 

 F. GiLLETT, Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, G. M. Mathews, 

 Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., F.R.S., H. C. Munro, C.B., 

 H. Munt, O. Neumann, T. H. Newman, H. J. Pearson, 

 A. E. Price, W. P. Pycraft, C. B. Rickett, J. Sar- 

 gent, F. C. Selous, R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., S. J, 

 White, C. H. T. Whitehead, H. F. Withehby {Sec. and 

 Treas.). 



Visitor : — R. B. Lodge. 



Mr. James Sargent exhibited an imraature female example 

 of the Black-throated Diver [Colymhus arciicus) which had 

 been observed between the 22nd and 26th of December on 

 Penn Ponds, Richmond Park. The bird, had evidently been 

 wounded and was picked up dead on the 1st of January, 

 1908. 



[January Slst, 1908.] vol. xxi. 



