BULLETIN 



OF TllR 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



Ko. VIII. 



The seventli meeting of the Club was held at the Restaurant 

 Frascati; 32 Oxford Street^ on Wednesday, the 19th of 

 April, J 893. 



Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Members present : — E. Bidwell, P. Crowley, H. E. 

 Dresser, W. R. Ogiltie-Grant, St. George Mivart, 

 F.R.S., H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, Robert H. Read, 

 Howard Saunders {Treasurer) , Henry Seebohm, R. Bowd- 

 LER Sharpe, G. E. Sbelley, J. Stoneham, J. T. Tristram- 

 Valentine. 



Guests : E. Hartert, W. Hartmann, R. B. Newton, 

 Hon. "Walter Rothschild, W. H. Simpson. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited some skins of rare 

 species of Game-Birds, the principal being Caccahis magna, 

 Prjev., and Phasianus satscheunensis, Prjev., specimens of 

 which had recen'iy been sent in exchange to the British 

 Museum by Dr. Pleske. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited a new Scops-Owl, which he 

 characterized as follows : — 



PiSORHINA SOLOKENSIS, Sp. n. 



Top of head and neck deep brown, nearly blackish; ear- 



[Matj lit, 1893.] 



