BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CCI. 



The hundred and ninety-eighth Meeting of the Club was 

 held at Pagani's Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, 

 W., on Wednesday, the 11th of November, 1914. 



Chairman: Hon. Walter E/Othschild^ Ph.D., F.R.S. 



Members preserd : — H. G. Alexander, E. C. Stuart 

 Baker, D, A. Bannbrman, B.A. {Editor), E. Bidwell, 

 S. BooRMAN, C. D. Borrer, p. E. Bunyard, Col. S. E. 

 Clarke, E. Gibson, E. Hartert, Ph.D., C. Ingram, Rev. 



F. C. R. JouRDATN, M.A., P. R. Lowe, M.B. {Sec. ^ Treas.), 



G, M. Mathews, M. Murray, T. H. Newman, W. R. 

 Ogilvie-Grant, C. Oldham, C. E. Pearson, F. R. Ratcliff, 

 C. B. Rickett, D. Seth-Smith, C. G. Talbot-Ponsonby, 

 H. M. Wallis, 11. F. Withers Y. 



Visitor: — J. L. Alexander. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild and Dr. Ernst Hartert 

 described a new form of Kingfisher, and made the following 

 remarks : — 



"In 1901 (Nov. Zool. viii. p. 145) we called attention 

 to the large size of a specimen of Ceyx solitaria from 

 New Hanover, but considered that it would be unwise to 



[_Novem'ber 2Wi, 1914.] vol. xxxv. 



