PREFACE, 



The total number o£ attendances at the meetings of the 

 Chib during the past Session was 351 : as compared with 

 466 and 402 during the two preceding sessions. 



A large number of new forms have again been described, 

 those chiefly responsible for them having been Mr. D. A. 

 Bannerman (Cameroons, Northern Nigeria, and Ivory Coast), 

 Mr. G. L. Bates (Northern Nigeria), Count Gyldenstolpe 

 (Central Africa), Dr. E. Hartert (Ethiopian and Paleearctic), 

 Mr. N. Kuroda (Japan), Mr. J. D. La Touche (Yunnan 

 and China), and Lord Rothschild (Yunnan). 



We regret to record the death of the following members of 

 the Club : — Mr. Henry John Elwes, F.R.S. ; Mr. John Henry 

 Gurney ; Mr. John James Lewis Bonhote ; Mr. Percy 

 Sanden Godman; Dr. Herbert Langton ; Mr. Aubyn 

 Bernard Rochfort Trevor-Batty e. Probably in no single 

 year has death robbed the Club of so many distinguished 

 ornithologists whose names and faces had grown to be so 

 intimately associated with our meetings. 



In a Session which has not been distinguished by any 

 outstanding features of unusual interest we look back with 

 pleasure to the series of wholly admirable photographs of bird- 

 life exhibited by the Swedish Naturalist Mr. Bengt Berg. 



We regret to have to record that Mr. C. W. Mackworth- 

 Praed has been compelled to resign the Secretaryship of the 

 Club. 



(Signed) PERCY R. LOWE, 



Editor. 

 London, July 1923. 



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