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sustained in the death of two prominent members of long- 

 standing : — 



Colonel R. G. VVakdlaw Ramsay, of Whitehill, Midlothian, 

 who died on the 22nd of April, was in his 70th year, and 

 became a member of the B.O.U. in 1872. He was President 

 of the Union from 1913 to 1918, and presented the Tweeddale 

 collection of bird-skins and the Tweeddale ornithological 

 library, which he had inherited from his uncle, the Marquis 

 of Tweeddale, to the Natural History Museum. 



Mr. H. M. Upcher, of Sherringham Hall, who died on 

 the 6th of April last in his 82nd year, was the oldest member 

 of the Union, to which he was elected in 1864, with the 

 exception of Mr. Percy Godman, now the only surviving 

 original member. Mr. Upcher was also an original member 

 of the Club from its foundation in 1882. In his young days 

 he travelled in Iceland, and accompanied the late Canon 

 Tristram in one of his excursions to Palestine. 



The Chairman announced that at the June meeting 

 Mr. Frank Chapman, the Curator of Birds in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, would address the Club on 

 the subject of "The Origin of Andean Bird-life, with 

 special reference to Altitudinal Life-zones " ; and he pro- 

 posed that, if the Club expressed their willingness to do 

 so, lady members of the B.O.U. might be invited to the 

 dinner as guests. On a show of hands, this proposal was 

 carried by a considerable majority, and members of the C-lub 

 may therefore bring as guests any lady member of the 

 Union to the next meeting on June 8th. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited a new Euprinodes, and 

 communicated the following descriptions of new East- 

 African forms by Dr. V. G, L. van Someren : — 



Euprinodes karamojae, sp. nov. 

 Differs from all known forest Warblers of genus Eu- 

 prinodes, and coloured as follows : — Head, rump, mantle, 

 and upper tail-coverts ashy-grey ; ear-coverts darker grey ; 

 preorbital spot blackish ; a white streak from the nostrils to 



