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BULLETIN (2 JAN 
OF THE Nena I ae 
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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. 
No. CCXXIX. 
Tre two-hundred-and-twenty-sixth Meeting of the Club was 
held at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, 
W., on Wednesday, December 12th, 1917. 
Chairman: The Lord Roruscuitp, Ph.D., F.R.S. 
Members present :—E. KE. Apams ; E. C. Stuart Baker ; 
P. F. Bunyarp; A. D. Braprorp; C. Cnuss; H. N. 
Corrart; A. Ezra; E. Harrert, T.I[repate; Rev. F.C. R. 
Jourpain; G. C. Lampert; G. M. Maruews; H. Mount; 
C. W. M. Prarp; A. E. Pricz; C. B. Rickert; D. Sera- 
Smitx (/ditor); C. G. Tatsor-Ponsonsy (Hon. Sec. & 
Treasurer). 
Guest of the Club :—Surgeon-General Ryan. 
Guest :—H. G. Hurpert. 
Lord Rorascnuitp exhibited some African Pigeons and 
made the following remarks :— 
Mr. W. L. Sclater (Ibis, 1912, p. 35) and Mr. Claude Grant 
(Ibis, 1915, p. 89) have come to the conclusion that there 
“are three races of the ‘“ Blue-spotted Wood-Dove,” i. e. 
adark West-African one, and two pale subspecies—one from 
Abyssinia (Chalcopelia abyssinica Sharpe) and one from the 
Upper Nile (C. delicatula Sharpe). Both the latter were 
separated from the dark West-African form, which all 
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