PEEFACE, 



The number of attendances at the meetings of the British 

 Ornithologists' Club during the past Session, 1916-191ir, 

 was 252, of which 214 were Members and 38 Visitors, an 

 average of 28 per meeting. This shows a considerable 

 falling off from the attendances of previous years, but 

 taking into consideration the number of Members who 

 are either serving in the Army or otherwise engaged in 

 war work of one kind or another, and the fact that very 

 little ornithological work is being done at the present time, 

 it is a matter of considerable satisfaction that it has been 

 possible to hold the meetings at all. 



The value and interest of the meetings has been main- 

 tained, largely owing to the exhibition of several new 

 forms of birds by our Chairman Lord Rothschild and 

 Dr. Hartert, and to the excellent series of rare eggs 

 shown by Messrs. Stuart Baker, Jourdain, and Bunyard. 



The March meeting was^ as usual, devoted to an exhi- 

 bition of lantern-slides of birds and their nests and eggs. 

 There was a good attendance, and the photographs shown 

 were well up to the average in quality and interest. 



The paper read by Lord Rothschild at the May meeting 

 on the status of Lophophorus impejanus Lath, and L. re- 

 fulgeyis Teram. is of particular interest and importance. 



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