BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



Bio. XXVI. 



The twenty- fifth meeting of the Club vras held at tlie 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday; the 

 17th of April, 1895.. 



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



Members 'present : — E. Bii)"\velL; H. J. Pearsox, F. Pen- 

 RosE_, HoAVARD Sauxders {Treasurer), W. L. Sclater, E,. 

 BoxTDLER Sharpe [Editor), W. B. Tegetmeier, Major 

 Horace Terry, Aubyn Trevor-Battye, John Young. 



Visitors : J. W. Castle,. H.. Stevens, Prof. Traquair, 

 W. F. Urwick. 



]\Ir. Sclater gave a short account of the tour he 

 had recently made up the Nile from Cairo to "Wadi 

 Halfeh and back. Travelling by the post-steamer, he had 

 been unable to malte collections, but with the aid of field- 

 glasses bad identified examples of about 50 species of birds. 

 In February above tbe First Cataract many birds were already 

 breeding, although the ordinary migrants from tbe south had 

 not yet arrived. Young Hoopoes and Wlieatears fully fledged 

 ■v\ere offered for sale bv the natives. A nest and two esfjrs 

 of the Pale Crag- Swallow [Cotile obsoleta) bad been taken 

 from a ledge in the smaller temple at Abou Simbel. The 

 necessity for a new edition of Shellcy^s 'Birds of Egypt' 

 was insisted on. 



[Ajjril 30th, 1895.] 



