BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. XII. 



The eleventh meeting of the Club was held at the Restaurant 

 Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 15th of No- 

 vember, 1893. 



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



Members present : — E. Bidwell, W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., 

 Leopold Field, H. 0. Forbes, E. Hargitt, A. P. Loyd, 

 P. W. MuNN, H. J. Pearson, Howard Saunders [Treas.), 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, G. E. Shelley, F. W. Styan, 

 E. Cavendish Taylor, Horace Terry, A. Trevor-Battye, 

 H. T. Wharton. 



Guests: C. E. Fagan, Dr. F. Harper (Chicago), Major 

 Arthur Terry, E. Wakefield. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks upon a speci- 

 men of vrhat is commonly called a "■ King ^' Parrot — i. e., a 

 variety of Psittacus erithacus stained with red (see Monteiro^s 

 ' Angola,'' i. p. 54) — ^which is said not to be uncommon at 

 Cassange, in the interior of Loanda. 



Mr. Sclater also exhibited specimens of the eggs of two 

 Caprimulgidse [Podager nacunda and Hydropsalis farcifera) 

 obtained by Mr. O. V. Aplin in Uruguay. 



Mr. F. W. Styan exhibited the type specimen of the new 

 [Novemher 28th, 1S93.] 



