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EULLETlje, 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



Ko. CCXX. 



The two-hiindred-and-seventeenth Meeting of tlie Club was 

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

 W,, on Wednesday, December 13th, 1916. 



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



Members preserd'. — E. C. Adams ; E. C. Stuart Baker ; 

 E. BiDWELL ; C. D. BoRRER ; A. D. Bradford ; P. F. Bun- 

 yard ; E. V. Earle ; A. Ezra; E. Hartert ; Sir H. J. 

 Johnson ; Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain ; G. C. Lambert ; 

 H. MuNT ; C. E. Pearson ; A. E. Price ; C. B. Rickett ; 

 M. C. Seton ; D. Seth-Smith {Editor) ; C. G. Talbot- 

 PoNSONBY {Hon. Sec. ^ Treasurer); H. M. Wallis; H. F. 



WiTHBRBY. 



Guests : — Hugh Adams ; A. H. Borrer j Lt, F. W. 

 Dewhurst; Bertram Jones ; W.Rowan. 



Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., and Dr. Ernst Hartert gave 

 a short review of the forms of Lalage karu inhabiting the 

 Papuan subregion, as follows : — 



1. Lalage karu karu (Less.). 



Lalage karu Lesson & Garnot, Voy. ' Coquille/ Ois., Atlas, 

 pi. 13, livr. 3 (1837), text p. 633 (1830, New Ireland). 



(^Ad. Upperside black with a greenish steel-blue gloss (as 

 in all the other subspecies) . Throat uniform, breast whitish, 

 [January 2nd, 1917.] vol. xxxvii. 



