BULLETIN 



ur THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



Wo. III. 



The second regular meetiiio; of the Club vras held at the Moua 

 Hotel, Henrietta Street,, Covent Garden, on Wednesday, 

 November 16th, 1892. 



Chairman : Howard Sauxders. 



Members j^reseni : — F. E. Beddard, F.R.S:, E. Bi dwell, 

 H. E. Dresser, A. P. Loyd, E. Neale, R,obert H. Read, 

 Capt. Satile Reid, Count T. Salvadoki, Hexrv Seeboum, 

 Capt. Horace Terry, E. Cavendish Taylor, H. T. Wharton, 

 John Young. 



Guest : Ernst Hartert. 



The Chairman announced that the number of Members 

 who had joined the Club up to the ICth of November 

 was 72. 



Mr. Henry Seebohm exhibited two examples of the 

 Siberian Pectoral Sandpiper (Tringa acuminata) which had 

 been obtained on the Norfolk coast. These are the only 

 authentic instances of the occurrence of the species in Great 

 Britain. A series of specimens of T, acuminata and its 

 American ally, T. moculata^ were placed on the table, and 

 the differences between the two species and their geogra- 

 phical distribution were pointed out. 



Count Salvadori gave diagnostic characters for two new 

 species of Pigeons of the genus Phlogienas, as follo\Ns : — 



