BULLETIN 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CXXV. 



The hundred and twenty-fourth meeting of the Club was 

 held at the Eestaurant Frascati, 32^ Oxford Street, on 

 Wednesday, the 16th May, 1906. 



Chairman : P. L. Sclatee, F.E.S. 



Member's present : — E. Bidwell, J. L. Bonhote, H. B. 

 Booth, C. Collier, H. E. Dresser, F. D. Drewitt, M.D., 

 Earl of Gainsborough, H. Goodchild, E. Hartert, Ph.D., 

 C. E. Hellmatr, E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, E. S. Montagu, 

 H. MuNT, M. J. NicoLL, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant (Editor], 

 C. E. Pearson, F. G. Penrose, M.D., E. Lort Phillips, 

 W.P. Pycraet, W. H. St. Quintin, R. H. Eead, D. Seth- 

 Smith, E. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., H. M. Wallis, H. F. 

 Witherbt (Secretary and Treasurer), Colonel J. W. 

 Yerbury. 



Visitor : — Charles M. Tuke. 



Mr. F. J, Jackson, C.B., sent for exhibition some 

 specimens of birds which he believed to be new to science. 



Alseonax melanoptera, sp. n. 

 c^ Similis A. lugenti, et subalaribus griseis insigiiis, 

 sed abdomine et subcaudalibus albis, alls nigri- 

 cantibus, plmnis minime griseo marginatis, facile 

 distinguenda. Long. tot. c. 5-2, culm.' 0-6, ala3 2'8, 

 caudse 2*15, tarsi 0-55. 



Hah. Toro, March 19th, 1902. 



[•28<7? May, 1906.] 



