BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



No. II. 



The first regular meeting of the Club was held at the Mona 

 Hotel, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, on Wednesday, 

 October 19th, 1892. 



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



Members present : — E. BlD■v^^ELL, W. Eagle Clarke, 

 Philip Crowley, W. Graham, A. P. Loyd, St. George 

 MiTART, F.R.S., H. J. Pearson, Egbert H. Read, Count 

 T. Salvadori, Howard Saunders, Henry Seebohm, R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, Horace Terry, W. B. Tegetmeier, J.T. 

 Tristram-Valentine, Charles A. Wright, John Young. 



Mr. Howard Saunders informed the Meeting that the 

 number of JNIembers who had joined the Club up to the 

 19th of October was 60. 



Mr. Sclater announced that he had received for the 

 'Ibis' an excellent Memoir on the birds of the vicinity of 

 Aden, prepared by Lieut. Henry E. Barnes, M.B.O.U., 

 and lately attached to the Commissariat Department at 

 Aden. It contained an account of 126 species of birds 

 collected or observed in the vicinity of Aden. Mr. Sclater 

 exhibited some specimens sent home by Lieut. Barnes from 

 Aden, for examination. Amongst these were examples 

 of Falco barbarus, Halcyon sern,ic(Brultu.s , and Coturnix 

 delegorguei, which was stated to be equally abundant near 

 Aden with C. communis. 



{November 1st, 1892.] 



