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BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB; 



No. CCVIII. 



The two-huudred-and-fi£th Meeting of the Club was held 

 at Pagani's Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, W., on 

 Wednesday, the 9th of June, 1915. 



Chairman: The Lord Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



Members preserd : — E. C, S. Baker ; D. A. Bannerman, 

 B.A, (Editor); E. Bidwell ; C. D. Borrer; S. Boorman ; 

 R. S. Browne ; P. F. Bunyard ; E. Gibson ; Rev. J. R. 

 Hale, M.A.; E. Hartert, Ph.D.; Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, 

 M.A.; P. R. Lowe (Hon. Sec. ^ Treas.) ; G. M. Mathews; 

 H. MuNT ; W. R. Ogilvie-Grant ; F. R. Ratcliff; R. H. 

 Read; C. B. Rickett ; W. L. Sclater, M.A. ; C. Swinhoe, 



Guests:— C. E. Fagan, I.S.O.; P. B. Smythe. 



The Chairman said that at a Meeting of the Committee 

 which had been held that morning several important ques- 

 tions had been discussed which he would now lay before the 

 Members present. 



He regretted to announce tliat the Editor — Mr. D. A. 

 Bannerman — was compelled to resign bis office at the 

 [July 1th, 1915.] a vol, xsxv. 



