BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. ecu. 



The hundred and ninety-ninth Meeting of the Club was 

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

 W., on Wednesday, the 9th of December, 1914. 



Chairman-. Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



Members preserd : — E. C. Stuart Baker, D. A. Banner- 

 man, B.A. {Editor), G. K. Baynes, E. Bidwell, P. F. 

 BuNYARD, C. Chubb, E. Gibson, C. H. B. Grant, E. Har- 

 TERT, Ph.D., Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, M.A., P. R. Lowe, 

 M.B. {Sec. 6s- Treas.), G. M. Mathews, E. G. B. Meade- 

 Waldo, H. Munt, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, C. Oldham, 

 C.E. Pearson, F. R. Ratcliff, R. H. Read, C. B. Rickett, 

 W. L. ScLATER, M.A., D. Seth-Smith, H. M. Wallis, 

 II. F. Witherby. 



Visitors : — Dr. G. Falkiner, H. W. Robinson. 



The Chairman announced that, at the meeting of the 

 Committee which had just been held, it had been proposed 

 by Mr. Bannerman and seconded by himself that discussions 

 on suitable topics of general ornithological interest should 

 take place on at least three meetings during the Session, 

 after the usual business of t^e'Club had been concluded. 

 [December 29ih,l9U.] /faj^^^' -- vol. xxxv. 



