P.ULLETIX 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



r>yro. XVII. 



The sixteenth meeting of the Club was held at the R-estauraut 

 Frascati, 32 Oxford Street^ on Wednesdaj^, the 18th of 

 April, 1894. 



Chairman : Henry Seebohm. 



Members present : — E. G. Barrett-Hamilton^. E. Bid- 

 welLj PniLip CrowleYj AV. E. De Wtnton, F. D. Godman, 

 F.R.S.j W. Graham, Dr. Edward Hamilton, Edward 

 Hargitt, Ernst Hartert, Major A, P. Loyd, T. J. Monk, 

 P. W. MuNN, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, H. J. Pearson, F. Pen- 

 rose, T. Digby Pigott, C.B., Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., Howard Saunders, R, Bowdler 

 Sharpe, C. B. Wharton, John Young. 



Visitors: Col. E. Delme-Radcliffe, Mr. C. E. Fagan, 

 Dr. A. Donaldson Smith (Philadelphia), Mr. H. Stevens. ' 



Mr. E. Bidwell exhibited two eggs of the Great Auk 

 {Alca impennis), which had apparently never been recorded, 

 and which had been brought by the owner to the British 

 Museum (Nat. Hist.) for identification in March last. 

 One was a very handsome specimen, but the second was 

 somewhat damaged : they had no" history beyond the fact 

 that they were purchased at a country sale amongst a lot of 

 old " curios. ■'■' 



[April 2,0th, 1894.] 



