31 [Vol. xli. 



Col. Stephenson R. Clarke ; H. J.Cochrane ; Lieut. -Col. 

 Delme-R-adcliffe ; Dr. P. GrOSSE ; Rev. J. R. Hale ; 

 Capt. E. C. Hardy, R.N.; E. Hartert; Q. R.Humphreys ; 

 T. Iredale ; Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain ; N. B. Kinnear ; 

 G. C. Lambert ; Dr. H. Langton ; Dr. P. R. Lowe 

 (Editor) ; Capt. H. Lynes, R.N. ; J. D. Mackenzie ; 

 H. A. F. Magrath ; G. M. Mathews ; E. Gr. B. Meade 

 Waldo ; H. Munt ; D. W. Musselthwaite ; J. H. Newman ; 

 Capt. C. R. Pitman ; A. E. Price ; F. R. Ratcliffe ; C. B. 

 Rickett ; Lord Rothschild ; Sir Malcolm Seton, K.G.jp,,,^ inVsfip-v. 

 Major A. L. Sladen ; Col. R. Sparrow ; H. Kirke-'Swann ; *'' 



C. a. Talbot-Ponsonby ; H. M. Wallis ; H. WhDBGiJ 5 19^,. 

 H. F. Witherby. 



Guests: — E. C. Barrington ; G. L. Bates; E. W. 

 Blessiz; R. R. Davis; C. E. Fagan; T. Forbes; G. M. 

 GiFFORD ; H. G. Maurice ; 0. R. Owen; H. C. Robinson, 

 P. B. Smyth, G. F. Stewart, L. G. M. Sheldon, J. H. W. 



Vale. 



Mr. W. L. Sclater gave tlie Meeting some account of his 

 recent journey round the World. The last three months of 

 1919 were spent in the United States, where he attended 

 the Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, 

 which was held at the American Museum of Natural History 

 in New York on November 12 to 14. The question of the 

 joint publication of the ' Systema Avium' with the B. 0. U. 

 was discussed at some length, and a provisional agreement 

 come to in regard to the matter. 



Li January Mr. Sclater crossed the American Continent 

 to Vancouver, and thence travelled homewards, making short 

 stays at Hong Kong, Singapore, and in Ceylon. 



Mr. W. L. Sclater also described the following new 

 subspecies : — 



Baza lophotes burmana, subsp. nov. , — 



Distinguished from B. I. lophotes by the absence of the 

 rufous on the scapulars, which are white with a broad apical 

 band of black, while in B. I. lophotes there is a band of 



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