BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No, CCXXV. 



The two-lmndred-and-twenty-seeond Meeting of the Club was 

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

 W., on Wednesday, May 9th, 1917. 



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

 Members present : — E. C. Stuart Baker ; P. F. Bun- 

 yard ; A. Ezra; Ernest Gibson; E. Hartert ; G. C. 

 Lambert; E. G. B. Meade- Waldo; H. Munt ; A. E. 

 Price ; C. B, Rickett ; D. Seth-Smith {Editor) ; C. G. 

 Talbot-Ponsonby {Hon. Sec. <Sf Treasurer) ; H. M. Wallis ; 

 H. F. Witherby. 



Guests : — Dr. E. Hopkinson ; Dr. Percy Rbndall ; 

 H. R. Munt. 



The Chairman exhibited a large water-colour picture 

 showing the varieties of the Monaul, and read the follow- 

 ing paper : — 



On the Status of Lophophorus impejanus Lath, 

 and L. refulgens Temm. By Lord Rothschild, F.R.S. 



Up to the year 1884 three species of Monaul Pheasant were 

 recognised — The "Common Monaul'^ of India, with a rufous 

 tail, fiery neck, and metallic bronze-green interscapulium and 

 [May 25th, 1917.] vol. xxxvii. 



