BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CXLVII. 



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

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

 on Wednesday, the 16th of December, 1908. 



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



Members present: — P. H. Bahr, E. Bidwell, F. E. 

 Blaauw, p. F. Bunyard, J. Gerrard, J. M. Goodall, 

 E, Hartert, Ph.D., C. Ingram, G. E. Lodge, G. M. 

 Mathews, H. Munt, 0. Neumann, W. R,. Ogilvie-Grant 

 {Editor), C. Oldham, F. G. Penrose, M.D., Major F. W. 

 Proctor, R. H. Read, C. B. Rickett, Hon. W. Rothschild, 

 Ph.D., M.P., A. D. Sapsworth, G. Schwann, F. C. Selous, 

 H. F. Witherby {Secretary and Treasurer). 



Visitor : — Dr. Cuthbert Christy. 



Mr. Boyd Alexander forwarded the description of a new 

 species of Red-winged. Starling, which he proposed to call 



Amydrus neumanni, sp. n. 



Amydrus rueppelli, Alexander (nee Verreaux), Bull. 

 B. O. C. xxiii. p. 16 (1908). 



Adult male. Similar to A. rueppelli, Verr., but the bill is 

 shorter and much stouter ; the tail longer ; and the wing- 

 coverts and secondaries, as well as the tail, strongly glossed 

 with metallic green. Culmen 26 mm.; wing 162 ; tail 198. 

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