PREFACE. 



The number of attendances at the meetings of the British 

 Oriiitliologists' Club during the past Session, 1915-1916, 

 was 286 ; of these 347 were Members and 39 Visitors. This 

 sliows an average of nearly 32 per meeting, somewhat 

 less than in the previous Session, a fact which is not 

 surprising considering the number of Members who are on 

 Active Service or doing other work in connection with the 

 War. 



During the past Session we have had to deplore the loss 

 by death of several valued Members. 



The veteran ornithologist Henry Eeles Dresser died at 

 Cannes ou November 28th^ 1915^ at the age of seventy- 

 seven. Richard M. Barrington, so well known for his 

 excellent work on the migration of Irish birds, died on 

 September 15th, 1915, near Dublin. 



Major C. H. T. Whitehead was killed in action on 

 September 26th, 1915, in France, and Lt.-Col. H. H. 

 Harington, whose many exhibitions of rare birds and their 

 eggs from Burma will be fresh in the memory of our 

 Members, fell in action in Mesopotamia on March 8th last. 



Gruy L. Ewen died at Windsor on the 25th of April last, 

 while Major F. W. Proctor^ a very regular attendant at our 

 meetings, passed away as recently as June ISth^ 1916, and 

 on going to press we hear with much regret of the death 

 of Lt.-Col. B. R. Horsbrugh, A.S.C., which took place at 

 his residence, Tandridge Priory, ou July 11th. 



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