BULLETIN 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. CI.XXX. 



The hundred and seventy-eiglith Meeting of the Club was 

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

 on Wednesday, the 12th of June^ 1912. 



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



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

 man^ C. D. BORRER^ p. F. BUNYARD, C. ChUBB, H. J. 



Elwes^ F.R.S. , H. GooDCHiLD, C. IngraMj G. M. Mathews, 

 H. Munt, T. H. Newman, C. Oldham, T. Parkin, C. E. 

 Pearson, F. G. Penrose, M.D., A. E. Price, Major F. W. 

 Proctor, Lt.-Col. R. G. Wardlaw- Ramsay, F. R. Ratcliff, 

 R. H. Read, C. B. Rickett, Hon. W. Rothschild, D.Sc, 

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

 H. M. Upcher, H. F. Witherby (^Secretary and Treasurer^. 

 Visitors : — J. H. Fleming, C. Boden Kloss, J. S. Parkin, 

 Colonel S. Sandbach. 



Mr. Witherby made the following statement : — 

 " Early in 1910 Mr. La Touche applied to the Committee 

 of the B.O.C. for financial assistance to study the move- 

 ments of migrants on the Chinese coast by sending collectors 

 to certain islands. In October 1910 the Committee agreed 

 to guarantee Mr. La Touche the expenses for an expedition 

 [July nth, 1912.] 1 VOL. 



