PREFACE. A^gerilUM^' 



The total number of Members of the British Ornithologists' 

 Club at the end of the Session 1914-1915 was 210. 



The number of attendances at the meetings of the Club 

 during the past Session was 317. This included 371 

 Members and 41 Visitors, showing an average of just 

 over 35 per meeting. The falling oif in numbers may be 

 entirely accounted for by the war, a number of Members 

 being on Active Service*, while many are engaged in 

 various branches of " war-work " in the United Kingdom. 



During the past Session we have to deplore the death, in 

 March last, of Capt. Savile Heid, who for many years was 

 an active Member of the Club. The B. O. U. has also 

 suffered a serious loss by the death in action in France 

 of Lieut. Lord Brabourne (Grenadier Guards), which was 

 briefly alluded to in the April number of the ' Bulletin ' ; 

 also of Lieut. R. B. Woosnam (Worcestershire Begt.), who 

 fell in Gallipoli on June 4. Both were well-known guests 

 at the meetings of the Club, and their loss will be deeply 

 mourned by all who knew them, 



The present Volume (XXXV.) of the ' Bulletin ' contains 

 descriptions of 56 new species and subspecies of birds, 

 the names of which will be found printed in heavy type 

 in the Index. Many remarkable and rare forms have also 

 been exhibited at the evening meetings. 



* A preliminary list of Members of the B. O. C. now on Active Service 

 will be published in the next (October) number of the ' Ibis.' 



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