PREFACE, 
Iv is a matter of some satisfaction that the British Ornitho- 
logists’ Club has been able to carry on for another Session 
during the fourth year of the greatest and most devastating 
war that the world has ever known. The attendances have 
naturally somewhat decreased, the total number for the past 
Session being 224, of which 27 were Visitors, against 252, of 
which 88 were Visitors during the previous Session. 
Thanks mainly to the energetic work of our Chairman 
Lord Rothschild, Dr. Hartert, Mr. Stuart Baker, and 
Mr. Chubb, a number of new forms have been described 
and the interest of the meetings of the Club maintained in 
spite of the impossibility of field-work being carried out. 
The March Meeting was held conjointly with the Annual 
B. O. U. dinner and the Members of the Club were delighted 
to welcome two Lady-members of the Union. The meeting 
was, as usual, devoted to an exhibition of lantern-slides of 
birds, their nests, eggs and nesting sites, and the beautiful 
series of slides shown were much appreciated. 
With the June Meeting of the Club Lord Rothschild 
concluded his five years’ term of office as Chairman, and the - 
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