BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. XV. 



TriE fourteenth meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 21st of February, 1894. 



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



Members present:— "E. Bidwell, Philip Crowley, W. E. 

 De Wikton, W. Graham, E. Neale, F, Menteith Ogilvie, 

 W. R. Ogilvie-Grakt, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, T. Digby 

 PiGOTT, C.B., Major R. G. Ward law Ramsay, R. H. Read, 

 Howard Saunders, H. Seebohm, R. Boavdler Sharpe, 

 F. W. Styan, W. B. Tegetmeier, Capt. H. A. Teiuiy, 

 C. J. Wilson, John Young. 



Visitors : Dr. J. R. Bradford, C. Pearson, H. Stevens. 



Mr. E. Bid WELL exhibited his set of photographs of eggs 

 of the Great Auk [Alca impennis), and stated that the 

 series laid before the Members comprised illustrations of 

 every known specimen except four. By the kind permis- 

 sion of Mr. Stevens, jMr. Bidwell was also able to exhibit 

 to the meeting the egg of the Great Auk wliich was to be 

 sold by auction on the morrow. It was an object of great 

 interest to all the members present, as it was originally the 

 property of Yarrell, and after his death passed into the hands 

 of his friend Frederick Bond, along with the rest of whose 

 collection it was ultimately purchased by Baron d'Hamouviile. 



[March 8, 1894.] 



