JUN17 1916 ' 

 BULLETIN \*»ffe,ai Mu5**5 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CCXVI. 



The two-hundred-and-tliirteenth Meeting of tlie Club was 

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

 W., on Wednesday, May 10th, 1916. 



Chairman : Dr. F. G. Penrose. 



Members present: — E. E. Adams ; E. C. Stuart Baker ; 

 E. Bidwell ; P. F. Bunyard ; P. A. Buxton ; B. W. Chase ; 

 H. N. Coltart; Rev. J. R. Hale; E. Hartert ; G. C. 

 Lambert; H. Munt ; F. Nicholson; C. Oldham; W. P. 

 Pycraft ; R. H. Read ; C. B. Rickett ; D. Seth-Smith 

 (Editor) ; C. G. Talbot-Ponsonby (Sec. 6f Treas.) ; H. F. 

 Witherby. 



Guests :— E. Kent ; J. K. Stanford ; T. Tait j T. M. 

 Till. 



The Rev. James Hale exhibited an abnormal clutch of 

 Nightingale's eggs, and made the following observations : — 



The eggs that I am exhibiting this evening are the 

 property of Colonel R. H. Rattray, and were taken by him 

 at Tonbridge on May 31st, 1908. 



On May 5th Colonel Rattray found a nest containing two 



eggs, bright blue in colour, at first sight Hedge Sparrow's 



eggs, but broader and more blunt at the end. But the nest 



was a typical nest of a Nightingale, both in situation and in 



[May 26th, 1916.] vol. xxxvi. 



