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BULLETIN 



OP THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CCLXVI. 



The two-hundred-and-sixty-third Meeting o£ the Club was 

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

 on Wednesday, February 8th, 1922. 



Chairman : W. L. Sclatee, M.A. 



Members present : — E. C. Stuaet Bakee ; G. K. Paynes ; 

 P. F. BuNYAED ; C. Chubb ; Dr. W. Eagle Claeke ; 

 R. H. Deane ; Lt.-Col. H. Delme-Padcliffe ; Rev. J. 

 R. Hale ; Dr. E. Haeteet ; Rev. F. C. R. Jouedain ; 

 N. B. KiNNEAE ; Dr. H. Langton ; Dr. P. R. Lowe 

 {Editor) ; C. W. Mackwoeth-Peaed : G. M. Mathews ; 

 Lt.-Col. & Mrs. Meineetzhagen ; D. W. Musselwhitb ; 

 T. H. Newman ; C. E. Peaeson ; C. B. Rigkett ; Lord 

 Rothschild ; Major A. G. L. Sladen ; H. F. Witheeby. 



Lord Rothschild exhibited the fossil egg of Struthio- 

 lithus sp. and said that the original egg of Strut hiolitJius 

 chersonesus was found in South Russia, but had been 

 accidentally destroyed. The present specimen and six 

 others recorded had been washed out of the river-bank 

 near Wuan, Province of Houan, China. It was impossible, 



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