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Lord Brabourne was engaged in writing, in conjunction 

 with Mr. C. Clmbb, tlie 'Birds of South America/ and 

 when war broke out was collecting in Peru. He was 

 well known to many members of the Club, and his loss to 

 ornithology would be very deeply felt. 



The Chairman moved that a vote of condolence from the 

 members of the British Ornithologists' Club should be sent 

 to Lord Brabourne's family, and this proposal was carried 

 unanimously. 



Mr. D. A. Bannerman exhibited some rare birds from 

 the Cameroon Mountains, including a new Puflf-backed 

 Shrike and the undescribed male of Nesocharis shelleyi, and 

 made the following remarks : — 



" The birds which I have brought for exhibition to-night 

 were obtained by the late Mr. Boyd Alexander on the 

 famous Cameroon Mountain, which reaches an elevation of 

 over 13,000 feet. A full report on this fine collection will 

 appear in the next number of ' The Ibis,^ and I thought, 

 therefore, that you might care to see some of the very rare 

 species which Alexander obtained. 



" Cameroon Mountain, like Ruwenzori and other great 

 African mountains which attain to a great altitude, can be 

 divided into various zones ; and, as Alexander commenced 

 at the foot and collected right up to the peak, he secured a 

 representative collection from every altitude. 



" Unfortunately the elevation at which particular species 

 were obtained is mentioned in one or two cases only, and it 

 is therefore less easy to define the zoological zones with 

 the same accuracy that it is possible to determine the zones 

 of vegetation ; but this will be gone into as fully as possible 

 in my paper." 



Examples of the following species were then exhibited : — 



Turdus crossleyi. — This Thrush has been obtained 

 only once before — in 1871 by Crossley — on the Cameroon 

 Mountains. Neither Sjosted, Sir Harry Johnston, Burton, 

 nor Zenker met with it. 



