

OJ IHE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



Wq^ "Kj^LILTII, 



The thirty-second nif:etiiig of tie Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati. S-2 Oxurd Streei. on Wednesday, the 

 19th of February, 1S96. 



Chah-maii: P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Members present : — O. V. .*xPlin, G. B.a.rrett-Hamilton, 

 E. BiDWELL, W. E. De Win-ton, E. A. S. Elliot, H. J. 

 Elwes, W. Graham, E. Hartert, Lt.-CoL L. H. Irby, 

 A. H. Macthersok, J. G. jMillai?, E. Neale, R. Nesham, 

 W. R. OoiLTiE-GKAxr, C. E. Peaksox, Frank Penrose, 

 Major R. G, Wardlaw-Ram:;av, Hoycard Saunders [Trea- 

 sMrer), Capt. G. E. Shelley, Vd. B. Tegetmeier, A. Trevor- 

 BattyEj H. M. Wallis, J. Young. 



Visitors : E. Garnet ]\Ian, Colchester Wemyss. 



!Mr. E. A. S. Elliot exhibited some interesting skins of 

 North- American birds ; amongst others, specimens of the 

 various southern and northern forms of Bubo virginianus ; 

 Megascops flammeola from (Colorado, i^aid to belong to the 

 first clutch of esics sent to the Smithsonian Institution ; 

 Sjjiij/ropicus thyroidcus (both sexes), t^vo examples of Falco 

 richardsoni; and a Xejna subrnii in breeding-plumage, remark- 

 able as having been obtained in Colorado. 



Mr. H. M. Wallis exhibi-:ed three eggs laid by a Golden 

 Eagle [Aquila chrysa^ius), i^aieh had been about thirty years 

 in confinement, and began to lay eggs about fifteen years ago. 



{Fehruarii 29iA, 1896.] 



