BULLETIiN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CXI. VIII. 



The Imndrcd and fort3^-seventh Meeting ot" the Club was held 

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

 on Wednesday, the 20th of January, 1909. 



Chairman: F. G, Penrose^ M.D. 



Members present : — E. Bidwell, S. Boorman, C. Borrer, 

 P. F. BuNYARi), H. E. Dresser, E. V. Earle, H. Goodchild, 

 E.HARTERT,Ph.D.,G.E. Lodge, Commander H.Lyxes, R.N., 

 G. M. Mathews, J. G. M illais, 0. Neumann, W. R.Ogilvie- 

 Grant {Editor), C. Oldham, W. P. Pycraft, W. E. 

 Renaut, C. B. Rickett, Hon, W. Rothschild, Ph.D., M.P., 

 J. Sargent, D. Seth-Smith, C. B. Ticehurst, M.D., N. F. 

 Ticehurst, F.R.C.S., A. Trevor-Battye, H. F. Withekby 

 {Secretary and Treasurei-), A. F. R. Wollaston. 



Visitors : — Captain R, Fanshawe, F. I. Richards, P. B. 

 Smyth, D. W. M. White. 



Mr. J. G. Millais exhibited two immature examples, 

 male and female, of the hybrid between the Red Grouse 

 {Lagopus scoticus) and the Black Grouse {Lyi-urus tetri.v), 

 killed in Wales, and made the following remarks : — 



" It would be natural to suppose that species which are 



closely allied and which frequent the same ground would often 



interbreed ; but such is not the case. It is well known that 



Black Grouse and Capcrcaillie frequently interbreed, and 



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