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BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CXXIX. 



The hundred and twenty-eighth Meeting o£ the Club was 

 held at the Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on 

 Wednesday, the 19th of December, 1906. 



Chairman: P. L. Sclater, P.R.S. 



Members present : — E. Bidwell, Capt. Goland Clarke, 

 D.S.O., H. E. Dresser, A. H. Evans, Guy L. Ewen, H. W. 

 FiNLiNsoN, J. Gerrard, J. M. GooDALL, E. Hartert, Ph.D., 

 C. E. Hellmayr, Eev. F. C. R. Jourdain, G. E. Lodge, 

 H. MuNT, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant (Editor), Theed Pearse, 

 H. J. Pearson, F. G. Penrose, M.D., A. E. Price, A. D. 

 Sapsworth, Howard Saunders, H. Schwann, R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, LL.D., C. B. Ticehurst, N. F. Ticehurst, F.R.C.S., 

 E. A. Wilson, M.D., H. F. Witherby {Secretary and 

 Treasurer) . 



Visitors : — F. H. Bulkeley-Johnson, P. F. Bunyard, 

 C. E. Fagan. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., sent for exhibition 

 an example of a new Parrot, which he described as follows : — 



Charmosyna stelLjE wahnbsi, subsp. n. 



Similar to C. stellce stellce from the Owen- Stanley Moun- 

 tains, but differs in having a wide orange-yellow band across 

 the breast, formed by the distal half or more of the feathers. 

 There are also other slight differences, the distal end of the 

 central rectrices being less orange and more yellow, and 

 the middle of the abdomen greener, but as there is only a 

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