BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



r^o. xi.li. 



The forty-first I\Ieeting of tlie Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati^ 32 Oxford Street^ ou W^'ednesday, the 

 17tb of February, 1897. 



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



Members present : — E. Bidtvell, F. C. Crav.torDj Philip 

 CROAyLEY, W. E. De Winton, Dr. F. D. DREvriTT_, W. Gra- 

 ham, W. R. OGiLyiE Graxt, G. E. B. Meade-Waldo, R. 

 Nesham, Heatley NoblEj T. Parkin, F. Penrose, Ho^^ard 

 Saunders [Treasurer] , R. Bowdler Sharpe [Editor], A. B. 

 R. Treyor-Battye, H. M. Wallis, Lionel A. Williams, 

 John Young. 



Visitors : Reginald Barratt, R. A. Crowley, Russell 

 Jaques, M. E. Simon (Paris). 



Mr. H. ]M. Wallis exhibited a sketch, accompanied by 

 notes from his diary, of a bird belieyed by him to be a 

 Diver, yhich he had observed sitting in an upright position. 

 In the discussion which ensued, the opinion of the ornitho- 

 logists present was, that the Divers never assumed an erect 

 attitude. Mr. Sclater said that, in the experience of ]\Ir. A. 

 D. Bartlett, none of the many Divers which had lived in the 

 Zoological Gardens had ever attempted to stand upright. 

 This was confirmed by Mr. Meade-Waldo, who had also kept 

 several Divers in captivity. 

 [Fehruary 21th, 1897.] 



