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BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CXI.I. 



The hundred and fortieth Meeting of the Club was held 

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

 on Wednesday, the 18th of March, 1908. 



Chairman : R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D. 



Members present : — E. Bidwell, H. E. Dresser, E, V. 

 Earle, F, W. Frohawk, Earl of Gainsborough, E. Gibson, 

 F. H. Cakruthers Gould, Rev. J. R. Hale, F. W. Headley, 

 Commander H. Lynes, G. M. Mathews, Hon. E. S. 

 Montagu, M.P., H. Munt, O. Neumann, W. R. Ogilvie- 

 Grant [Editor], T. Parkin, C. E. Pearson, H. J. Pearson, 

 F. G. Penrose, M.D,, A. E. Price, Major F. W. Proctor, 

 W. P. Pycraft, F. R. Ratcliff, C. B. Rickett, A. D. 

 Sapsworth, F. C. Selous, C. B. Ticehurst, M.D., N. F. 

 TiCEHURST, F.R.C.S., H. M. Wallis, Capt. L. A.Williams, 

 H. F. Witherby [Sec. and Treas.). 



Visitors : — J. M. Barton, H. A. A. Dombrain, C. II. B. 

 Grant, C. J. Talbot Ponsonby, G. Witherington, R, B. 



WOOSNAM. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe introduced Mi', Claude Grant to 

 the Memhers of the Club and stated that he had just 

 returned from a seven years^ collecting-trip in South Africa 

 on behalf of the Rudd Exploring Expedition. 



[March 30th, 1908.] vol. xxi 





