BULLETIN 



or TEE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. XXXII. 



The thirty-first meeting of the Club Tvas held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on ^YednesdaY, the 

 lath of January, 1896. 



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



Members present: — G. Barrett-Hamilton, E. Bidwell, 

 Lt.-Col. C. T. Bingham, F. E. Bla.4.uw, F. E. Beddard, 

 F.R.S., Philip Crowley, A. H, Evans, W. Graham, 

 Dr. A. GuNTHER, F.R.S. , G. H. Caton Haigh, R. Nesham, 

 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Chas. E. Pearson, H. J. Pearson, 

 F. Penrose, Hotvard Saunders {Treasurer) , W. L. Sclater, 

 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe [Editor], Capt. G. E. Shelley, 

 F. Styan, W. B. Tegetmeier. 



Visitors : Dr. F. D. DrewitTj J. Mitchell, Arnold Pike. 



Mr. Sclater gave the outlines of a scheme for a ne-vr 

 general yrork on Birds, yrhich he had long planned and which 

 he proposed to bring before the next meeting of the B. 0. U. 

 with the hope of inducing his brother ornithologists to 

 assist in it. Now that the great ' Catalogue of Birds" in the 

 British ISIuseum was approaching completion, it was manifest 

 that the possibility of preparing a general handbook of the 

 described species of birds (something in the style of Bona- 

 parte^s 'Conspectus^) was greatly increased. In JN'Ir. Sclater^s 

 opinion the best way of effecting this desirable object ATOuld 

 be to separate the handbook into six portions, corresponding 



[January Zlst, 189G.] 



