BULLETIX 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



KFo. XXXI. 



The thirtieth meeting of the Chib was held at the Restaurant 

 Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 18th of 

 December, 1895. 



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

 Members present : — G. Barhett-Hamiltox, K. M. Bar- 



RIXGTOK, E. BiDWELL, Col. C. T. BiNGHAM, J. L. BoN- 



HOTE, Philip Crowley, W. E. De Winton, W. Graham, 

 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Ernst Hartert, Major A. P. Loyd, 

 J. G. MiLLAis, R. Nesham, H.J. Pearson, Fhaxk Penrose, 

 Howard Saunders [Treasurer), Pl. Bowdler Sharpe {Edi- 

 tor), Capt. G. E. Shelley, Pi.ev. H. H. Slater, C. A. Wright, 

 John Young. 



Visitors : F. V. McConnell, H. Stevens, W. N. Wood. 



The Chairman spoke of the loss wliich the Club had sus- 

 tained since its last meeting, by the death of Mr. Henry 

 Seebohm, of whose life and work he gave a short account. He 

 proposed that a message of condolence be sent to the family, 

 and this was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Sclater also ex- 

 pressed a hope that some meaus would be found to publish 

 the 'Monograph of the Turdidte,'' which Mr. Seebohm had 

 left in a forward state. 



Mr. J. G. Millais exhibited photographs of Swallows^ 

 nests built in the branches of stags' horns at Warnham 

 Court. One of these nests had been so built for nine years 

 in succession. 



iDeceviher SOfh. 189.11 



