BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



No. CI.XXV. 



The liundred and seventy-third Meeting o£ the Club Mas held 

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

 Wednesday, the 10th of January, 1912, 



Chairman: P. L. Sclater, D.Sc, F.R.S. 



Membei's present : — H. G. Alexander, D. A. Bannerman, 

 W. I. Beaumont, E. Bidwell, S. Boqrman, C. D. Borrer, 

 P. F. Bunyard, E, HARTERTjPh.D., C. Ingram, P. E,. Lowe, 

 M.B., G. M. Mathews, R. O. Mathews, H. Munt, W. R. 

 Ogilvie-Grant {Editor), C. Oldham, W. P. Pycraft, 

 F. R. Ratclipf, R. H. Read, H. W. Richmond, C. B, 

 RicKETT, Hon. W. Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S., J. Sargent, 

 W. L. Sclater, D. Seth-Smith, N. F. Ticehurst, F.R.C.S., 

 H. G. Tyrwhitt-Drake, H. M. Wallis, Colonel R. G. 

 Wardl AW- Ramsay, H. F. Withe rby {Sec. ^ Treas.), 



A. F. R. WOLLASTON. 



Visitors :— Hon. J. A. Bucknill, O. Murray Dixon, 

 J. C. Hartert, T. Iredale, A. B. Percival, C. J. Talbot 

 Ponsonby, H. Hammond Smith, M.D. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S., described 

 a new species of Cassowary and made the following remarks 

 on the other species and subspecies of the genus, illustrated 

 by coloured drawings of every known form. 



[January 2Uh, 1912.] 



