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defray the cost. Members present were asked to urge other 
members to subscribe. 
(2) That as the present Editor’s term of five years’ office 
would expire at the end of the current Session, and that as 
the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer desired to retire on 
account of other pressing duties preventing his continuing 
to carry out the work of the Club to his satisfaction, the 
following gentlemen be nominated to fill the two posts, 
subject to their consent and to their election at the next 
Annual General Meeting :— 
As Editor, Dr. Percy R. Lows. 
As Secretary & Treasurer, Mr. J. L. Bonnore. 
(3) That the meeting in June should be principally devoted 
to an exhibition of old books and prints bearing on the subject 
of Ornithology and other objects of ornithological interest. 
Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker made the following remarks on 
some Oriental species :— 
I have recently received from Mr. W. E. Wait, of the 
Jeylon Civil Service, a very nice series of skins of Prinza 
sylvatica, together with some interesting notes. Mr. Wait 
tells me that in Ceylon -this little Warbler appears to breed 
practically all the year round, and that, unlike the same 
species in India, has no summer and winter variation in 
plumage. This is borne out by the series sent, though there 
are two apparently immature birds which have not acquired 
fully black bills. 
There is a very big series of this Prinia in the British 
Museum collection, the majority of which are from Raipur 
and Mudderpore, with smaller series from Mt. Aboo and else- 
where, and a fair number from Ceylon. These latter agree 
with the birds sent from that Island by Mr. Wait. 
The whole of this latter series are very dark in their general 
tone above, and are easily distinguished from those obtained 
in Continental India. 
