BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



-No. XXIII. 



The twenty-second meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati. 32 Oxford Street^ on Wednesday, the 

 16th of January, 1895. 



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



Members prese^it : — E. Bidwell, W. E. De Winton, 

 E. Hargitt, St. George Mivart, F.U.S., E. G. B. Meade- 

 Waldo, F. Menteith OgilviE; C. E. Pearson, J. H. Pear- 

 son, F. Penrose, T. Digby Pigott, C.B., Howard Saunders 

 {Treasurer), R. Bowdler Sharpe {Editor)^ H. Seebohm, 

 H. H. Slater, W. B. Tegetmeier, C. A. AYright. 



Visitors : Col. Adamson, J. B. Bilderdece, C. Poole, 

 C. B. PticKETT, F. C. Selous. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer sent the following description of the 

 hitherto unknown male oi Amblyornis iiiornata (Schl.), from 

 Karoon, west of the Arfak Mountains : — 



'' Mas. Supra colore brunneo saturatiore quam femina 

 subterque ferrugiueo tinctus, subalaribus ferrugineis : 

 alls caudaque subter suspectu quodam fiavo-olivaceis : 

 scapis flavescentibus : capitis crista sincipiti tantum- 

 modo inserta, transversa, flabelliformi, iongissima, 80 

 millim. : colore quo Amblyornis subalaris, Sharpe, sed 

 plumis lateralibus marginibus brunneis , nee nigris. 

 Long. al. 134 millim., rostri culm. 25, caud. 98. 

 "■ Dr. Sharpe recently established [vide anted p. xv) the 



genus Xanthochlarnys for the two known crested species of 

 [Jatiiiary 2Qth, 1895.] 



