BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



rco. XXV. 



The tT^'enty-fourtli meeting of the Clab was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 20th of March, 1895. 



Chairman : Howard Saunders. 



Members present: — E. Bidwell, J. L. Bonhote, W. E. 

 De WiNTON, Ernst Hartlkt, W. E.. Ogilvie-Grant, H. J. 

 Pearson, Frank Penrose, R. Bowdler Sharpe [Editor), 

 G. E. Shelley, C. A. Wright. 



Visitors: C. E. Fagan^ Frederick Gillett, C. B. Ric- 



KETT. 



The Chairman read extracts o£ letters received from 

 ]\Ir. P. L. Sclater, relative to birds observed on his excursion 

 up the Nile. It was remarked that the Egyptian Kite 

 carried its legs straight out under the base of the tail. 



Mr. Howard Saunders made some remarks upon the 

 Skimmers {Rhyncliopina;), Avith special reference to the 

 species found in America. After studying the specimens 

 in the collectiou of the Natural History Museum, h-> -foimd 

 three forms which he considered to be specifically di>tinct. 

 Of these, Rhynchops nigra has a nearly white tail, a Inoad 

 pure white alar band, conspicuously white parapteral feathers, 

 and white under wing-coverts ; it inhabits the temperate 

 and tropical east coast of North America. R. melanura has 



I'March ZQth, ISOo.] 



