BDLLETIX 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



BJo. XL.!:. 



The fortieth meeting of the Club Tvas held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday^ the 

 20th of January, 1897. 



Chah'man : P. L. Sclater^ P.R.S. 



Memhers present : — G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, E. Bid- 

 well, Lieut.-Col. C. T. Bingham, F. E. Blaauw, J. L. 

 BoNHOTEj P. CrowleYj W. E. De Winton, Dr. F. D. 

 Drewitt, H. O. Forbes, E, Hartert, Sir Herbert Max- 

 well, Bart., R. Nesham, H. J. Pearson, H. Saunders 

 {Treasurer), R. B. Sharpe [Editor], W. B. Tegetmeier, 

 N. F. Ticehurst, a. B. R, Trevor-Battye, Watkin Wat- 

 kins, H. M. Wallis, C. a. Wright, J. Young. 



Visitors: Sir Andrew N. Agnew, Bart., J. Allan, J. 

 Cyril Crowley, C. B. Gedge, Percy Jaques, Col. H. 

 Murray. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant described a new Francolin, 

 discovered by ]\Ir. F. J. Jackson in the Kikuyu district, 

 British East Africa, as follows : — 



Francolinus kikuyuensis, n. sp. 



Most nearly allied to F. levaillaati, but the middle of the 

 throat- suffused with chestnut; the feathers of the super- 

 ciliary stripes and the stripes from the gape along the 

 sides of the throat pale rufous, with narrow black edgings, 

 very different from the boldly-marked black and white 

 [January 2,\st, 1897.] 



