BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. CCXI. 



The two-hundred-and-eightli Meeting of the Club 



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



Wednesday, December Sth, 1915. 



Chah-man: The Lord Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



Members present : — Capt. J. P. Ald worth ; E. C. Stuart 

 Baker ; E. Biuwell ; S. Boorman ; A. D, Bradford 

 P. F. Bunyard; C. Chubb ; H. O. Forbes; F. H. C 

 Gould ; W. R. Ogilvie-Grant ; Rev. J. R. Hale, C.F. 

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

 Lowe (Hon. Sec. &; Treasurer) ; G. M. Mathews ; H. Munt 

 T. H. Newsman; C. E. Pearson; F. R. Ratcliff ; W. E. 

 Renaut ; C. B. Rickett ; A. D. Sapswokth ; D. Seth- 

 Smith (Editor)', H. M. Wallis ; H. F. Withbrby. 



Guests '. — E. E. Adams ; C. E, Fagan ; E. H. Hickman. 



The Chairman delivered his Annual Address : — 

 ''Brother Members op the B. O. C, — 



" Fourteen months ago, when I last addressed you_, we 

 were in the throes of the greatest war and, incidentally, 

 the greatest and most tragic catastrophe the world has ever 

 known ; unfortunately, when I now come to address you 



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