BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CXI.IV. 



The hundred and forty-third Meeting of the Club was held 

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

 on Wednesday, the 17th of June, 1908. 



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



Members present : — Boyd Alexander, E. Bidwell, J. L. 

 BoNHOTE, C. BoRRER, ¥. D. Drewitt, M.D., E. V. Earle, 

 H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., Guy L. Ewen, E. Gibson, E. Hartekt, 

 Ph.D., G. E. Lodge, P. R. Lowe, M.D., G. M. Mathews, 

 Hon. E. S. Montagu, M.P., H. Munt, T. H. Ni^wman, 

 M. J. NicoLL, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant {Editor), C. E. Pearson, 

 F. G. Penrose, M.D., H. Scherren, F. C. Selous, D, Seth- 

 Smith, R, Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., C. B, Ticehurst, M.D., 

 N. F. Ticehurst, F.R.C.S., H. M. Wallis, H. F. Witherby 

 [Sec. and Treas.). 



Visitors : — C. H. B. Grant, C. Rhodes, H. Stevens. 



Mr. E. Bidwell exhibited an egg of the Great Auk 

 {Plautus impennis) which had been sent to Mr. Henry Steveus 

 for sale. It had been in the possession of the Hardy family 

 since 1847, when the late Mr. John Wolley saw it in the 

 collection of the well-known ornithologist Mons. J. Hardy, 

 of Dieppe. On his death, in 1863, it passed to his son 

 Mons. jNlichel Hardy, of Perigueux, who in turn bequeathed 

 it to his daughter Madame Ussel, of Eu. Its place of origin 

 was unknown. 



[July 1st, 1908.] VOL. xxi. 



