BULLETIN 
OF THE 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. 
No. CCXXX. 
Tue two-hundred-and-twenty-seventh Meeting of the Club 
was held at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland 
Street, W., on Wednesday, January 9th, 1918. 
Chairman: The Lord Roruscuitp, Ph.D., F.R.S. 
Members present:—H. C. Stuart Baker; E. Brpwe tz ; 
P. F. Bunyarp; A. Ezra; E.. Harrerr; C. Ineramu; 
Rev. F. C. R. Jourpain; G. C. Lampert; H. Mount; 
C. W. M. Prazp; A. E. Price; C. B. Rickert; W. L. 
ScraTer ; D. Sera-Smiru (/ditor). 
Guests :—Col. Drury; H. R. Munt; F. R. Row ey. 
On a motion put to the Meeting by the Chairman, 
a unanimous vote was passed protesting against the pro- 
posal to dismantle the Natural History Museum for trans- 
formation into Government offices. 
Lord Rorascnitp made the following statement :— 
In the description of Turtur afer sclatert (antea, p. 26) 
is an unfortunate slip. It should read as follows : 
“We have now received skins from Senegambia which 
differ strikingly from the birds from Western Africa 
generally, not only by the much paler and less brown colour 
of the upperside and the lighter, less rufescent breast, but 
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