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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CCI.XXIX. 



The two-hundred-and-seventy-fi£th Meeting o£ the Club was 

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

 on Wednesday, May 9th, 1923. 



Chairman : W. L. Sclater. 



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

 man ; P. F. BuNTARD ; A. H. Evans ; Rev. J. R. Hale ; 

 Dr. E. Hartert ; N. B. Kinnear ; G. C. Lambert ; 

 Dr. G. C. Low; Lt.-Col. H. A. F. Magrath ; Col. & Mrs. 

 Meinertzhagen ; H. Munt ; Miss V. Munt ; C. Oldham ; 

 C. B. Rickett ; Lord Rothschild ; H. Kirke Swann ; 

 C. G. Talbot-Ponsonby ; G. M. Vevers ; H. M. Wallis ; 



H. F. WiTHERBY. 



Guests:— Q. L. Bates; T. R. Morgan; C. E. Moss; 

 A. W. Sbalby. 



Mr. David Bannerman gave a brief account of the 

 expedition undertaken by Messrs. Willoughby Lowe and 

 Hardy to the French Ivory Coast, exhibited a few of the 

 interesting birds which had been secured, and described a 

 new Camaroptera. He said : — 



" You may care to hear something of the results of the 

 expedition which has recently returned from the French 



[May 28th, 1923.] a vol. xliii. 



