B C L L E T I y 



or THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



no. XXVIII. 



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

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 19th of June, 1895. 



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



Members present : — E. Bidwell, F. E. Blaauw, W, E. De 

 Wintox, W. Graham, Major A. P. Loyd, E. Neale, 

 E.. Nesham, W. R. Ogilvie-Graxt, Frank Penrose, Digby 

 PiGOTT, C.B., Hon. Walter Rothschild, Howard Saun- 

 ders [Treasurer), R. Bowdler Sharps (Editor), E. Caven- 

 dish Taylor, Capt. Horace Terry, W. B. Tegetmeier. 



Visitors : Dr. Drewitt, Herbert Druce, Hear Renesse 

 VAN Duivenbode, Dr. Jordan, Henry Stevens. 



i\Ir. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited a very curious variety 

 of the Common Rook, with white tips to nearly every feather 

 of the body. This specimen was one of several similarly 

 marked young birds procured in the same Rookery during 

 the last spring. 



Mr.' E. BiDWELL exhibited an e^g of the Great Auk {AIca 

 impennis), from Iceland, from the collection of Baron 

 d^Hamonville, and formerly in the collection of Comte Raoul 

 de Berace. 



'Jane -lOih, IS'.^o.' 



