BULLETIN 



OP THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CLIII. 



The hundred and fifty-second Meeting of the Club was held 

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

 Wednesday, the 16th of June, 1909. 



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



Members present: — E. Bidwell, F. E. Blaauw, J. L. 

 BoNHOTE, H. E. Dhesser, E. V. Earle, F. Finn, E. Gibson, 

 H. GooDCHiLD, J. H. Gurney, Rev. J. R. Hale, G. E. 

 Lodge, G. A.Macmillan, W. F. Macmillan, G. M. Mathews, 

 E. G. B. Meade- Waldo, Hon. E. S. Montagu, M.P., H. 

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

 Pearson, F. G. Penrose, M.D., A. E. Price, C. B. Rickett, 

 Hon. Walter RoTHscHiLDjPh.D., M.P.,R.Bowdler Sharpe, 

 LL.D., D. Seth-Smith, J. H. Stenhouse, M.B., R.N., 

 C. B. Ticehurst, M.B., C. Whymper, H. F. Witherby 

 {Sec. &; Treas.). 



Visitors : — R. O. Mathews, R. I. Pocock, Dr. M. Sassi. 



Mr. M. J. NicoLL exhibited examples of some rare or little- 

 known Egyptian birds, and made the following remarks : — 



(1) SPORiEGINTHUS AMANDAVA (LinU.). 



" The specimens exhibited are of interest as having been 

 [June mth, 1909.] 



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