BULLETIN A,^ 



W MAY 15 1917 



OF THE \ 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' 



BiTo. CCXXIV. 



The two-hundred-and-twenty-first Meeting of the Club was 

 held at Pagani's liestaurant, 42-4'8 Great Portland Street, 

 W., on Wednesday, April 11th, 1917. 



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

 Members preserd:—^. C. Stuart Baker; E. Bidwell ; 

 S. BooRMAN ; P. F. BuNYARD ; H, N. Coltart; a. Ezra ; 



E. Gibson ; E. Hartert ; Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain ; G. C. 

 Lambert; H. Langton; H. Munt ; C. E. Pearson ; C, B. 

 Rickett ; W. L. ScLATER ; D. Seth-Smith {Editor) ; H. 



F. WiTHERBY. 



Guest : — C. W. Praed. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert made the following remarks on the 

 genera Myrmecocichla and Phylloscopus, which he illustrated 

 by the exhibition of specimens in the Tring Museum : — 



Reichenow, in his great work on the ' Birds of Africa,'' iii. 

 p. 706, united Myrmecocichla nigra and arnotti as individual 

 aberrations of one form. That this is wrong was long known 

 to me, and it has been clearly pointed out by Ogilvie-Grant, 

 ' Ibis,' 1908, p. 299. The chief difference is, that the adult 

 female (and the young) of M. nigra is uniform brown (not 

 black), and that the male is not known to have a white 

 [Aiyril 2Uh, 1917.] vol. xxsvii. 



