BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



^o, XIII. 



The twelfth meeting of the Club was held at the Restaurant 

 Frascati, 32 Oxford Street^ on Wednesday, the 20th of 

 December, 1893. 



Chairman : Henry Seebohm. 



Members present: — E. Bidwell, P. Crowley, W. R. 

 Ogilvie Grant, E. Hartert, E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, T. J. 

 Monk, P. W. Munn, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, Howard 

 Saunders [Treasurer], R, Bowdler Sharpe [Editor], H. H. 

 Slater, F, W. Styan, A. B. R. Trevor-Battye. 



Visitor : J, M. Mitchell. 



Mr. Meade-Waldo exhibited a series of clutches of 

 curiously-marked eggs of the Common Blackcap [Sylvia 

 atricapilla), from the Canary Islands. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited the type of a new species 

 of Snipe in the Tring ]\luseum, for which the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild furnished the folloAring description : — 



'■'■ In No. IX. of the Bulletin Canon Tristram described 

 a new Snipe from the Snares under the name of Gallinayo 

 huegeli, and mentioned that the Snipe from Antipodes Island 

 would probably be also new. Having received a specimen 



[December SOth, 1893.] 



