BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



Ko. XVIII. 



The seventeenth meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street^ on Wednesday, the 

 16th of May, 1894. 



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



Members present'.— Yj. Bidwell, W. T, Blanfokd^ F.K.S., 

 W. Chamberlain^ E. Hartert, A. P. Loyd, E. W. Gates, 

 W. R. Ogiltie-Grant, F. Penrose, R. H. Read, Hon. W. 

 Rothschild, Howard Saunders, H. Seebohm, R. Bowdlek 

 Sharpe, G. E. Shelley, W. B. Tegetmeier, A. Trevok- 

 Battye, H. M. Upcher, C. J. Wilson. 



Visitors : Capt. B. L. Sclater, Pt.A., G. L. Sclater, R.X,, 

 Dr. A. Donaldson Smith (Philadelphia). 



Mr. E. W. Gates exhibited some skins of birds recently 

 procured by him in the Shan States, amongst which was an 

 apparently new species of Ixulus, which he proposed to call , 



IXULUS CLARKI, Sp. U. 



Similis I. humili, Hume, sed dorso cinereo nee brunneo, 

 pileo saturate umbrino, nee ut in /. humili dorso con- 

 eolori, macula argentescente adlatera colli posita, distin- 

 guendus. Long. tot. 5 poll., aiae 2*45. 



This sjjecies was named after Mr. C. C. S. Clark,, wlio had 



[May 2Gth, LS94.] 



