B D L L E T 1 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CCXXII. 



The two-luindrecl-and-nineteenth ]\'Ieetiug of the Club was 

 lield at Pagaiii's Restaurant, 4.2-48 Great Portland Sti'eet, 

 W., on Wednesdaj^, February 14th, 1917. 



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



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

 G. Baynes ; E. BiuwELL ; S. Boorman ; H. B. Booth; 

 A. D. Bradford; P. E. Bunyard ; A. Ezra; F. H. C. 

 Gould; E. Hartert ; G. C. Lambert; E. G. B. Meade- 

 Waldo ; C. E. Pearson ; C. B. Rickett ; A. D. Sapsworth ; 

 W. L. Sclater; D. Seth-Smith (^Editor); C. G. Talbot- 

 PoNSONBY [Hon. Sec. ^ Treasurer) ; S. L. Whymper ; 

 H. F. Witherby. 



Guest : — W. R. Lyon. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited two new subspecies of 

 Venezuelan birds, which he described as follows : — 



Synallaxis terrestris bolivari, subsp. nov. 



Differs from S. terrestris striatipectus Chapm., from 

 Quebrada Secca, Caripe, Los Palmales, and La Tigrera, 

 (eight specimens compared) in the State of Bermudez, i. e., 

 much further east than Caracas and Valencia, by having 

 the whole upperside more olivaceous, less rusty. 



[March Gth, 1917.] ,■ vol. xxxvii. 



