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BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CCLXXVIir.^'"' 



[i^ Uni 21 1923 ^; 



The two-hundred-and-seventy-£ourth Meeting^tM'OluKVks ' 

 held at Pa gani's Restaurant, 42-48, Great Portland Street, W,, 

 on Wednesday, April llth, 1923. 



Chairman : W. L. Sclater. 



Members present: — E. C. Stuart Baker ; D. A. Banner- 

 man ; P. F. BuNYARD ; Clifford Borrer ; C. Chubb ; 

 Capt. H. L. Cochrane, R.N. ; Lt.-Col. A. Delme-Rad- 

 CLIFFE ; Lt.-Col. H. Delme-Radcliffe ; Capt. F. W. 

 Dewhurst ; Dr. J. M. Harrison; Dr. E. Hartert ; Rev. 



F. C. R. Jourdain; Dr. Gt. C. Low; Dr. P. R. Lowe 

 (Editor) ; N. J. Lucas ; C. W. Mackworth-Praed (Hon. 

 Sec.) ; Capt. W. E. F. Macmillan ; Dr. P. H. Manson- 

 Bahr ; R. H. Read ; C. B. Rickett ; Lord Rothschild ; 



G. W. Vevers ; H. M. Wallis ; H. F. Witherby ; W. H. 

 Workman. 



Guest :— J. Anderson. 



Lord Rothschild exhibited four examples o£ casual 

 hybrids and three examples of intergradational series be- 

 tween two subspecies, to illustrate the difference between 



[April 30th, 1923,] a VOL xliii. 



