BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CI.XXVIII. 



The hundred and seventy-sixth Meeting of the Club was 

 held at Pagani^s Restaurant, 42-18 Great Portland Street, W., 

 on Wednesday, the 10th of April, 1912. 



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



Members present : — D. A. Bannerman, E. Bidwell, 

 C. D. BoRRER, C. Chubb, J. M. Gtoodall, Rev. F. C. R. 

 JouRDAiN, N. B. Kinnear, G. E. Lodge, P. R.Lowe, M.D., 

 G. A. Macmillan, G. M. Mathews, R. O. Mathews. 

 H. Munt, T. H. Newman, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant {Editor), 

 C. Oldham, Major F. Proctor, F. R. Ratcliff, C. B. 

 RicKETT, D. Seth-SxMith, E. F. Stanford, H. F. Witherby 

 (Sec. ^ Treas.). 



Visitors :— J. M. Borrer, C. M. Dyer, H. S. L. Fry. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited two skins o£ birds which 

 had been forwarded to him from Gambia by Dr. E. Hop- 

 kinson. The skins had been very cleverly made up by the 

 natives from a Golden Oriole (Oriolus auratus, Yieill.) and a 

 Glossy Starling (Lamprocolius purpureas , Miill.), the head and 

 neck of the one having been transferred to the body of the 

 other. As would be seen, the result was the production of two 

 remarkably handsome birds, the artifice being so skilfully 

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