BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



K"G. I^. 



The forty-niuth i^Ieetlng of tlie Club was held at the 

 Restauraut Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 19th of January, 1898. 



Chuirman : P. Crov.-ley. 



Members prGse?2t : — Boyd Alexander, E. Bidvtell, W. E. 

 De Win-ton, Dr. P. D. Drevtitt, E. N. F. Fenwick. J. H. 

 GuRNEY, E. Hartert, E.t. Hon. Sir Herbert jMaxwell, 

 Bart., !\I.P., E. G. B. jNIeade-Walbo, H. ]\Iunt, R. Nesha.m, 

 H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, M.D., W. P. Pycraft, Percy 

 Kendall, i\I.D., H. Saunders (Treasurer), R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe (Editor), W. B. Tegetmeier, Johnson AVilkinson, 

 H. F. Witherby. 



Visitors: Hon. R. Coke, R. A. Crowley, E. L.a.rken. 



Dr. Boavdler Sharpe exhibited a specimen of Otus abis- 

 siniciis, Guerin, from Somali Land. This individual was 

 obtained by j\Ir. J. Benet Stanford, and was of great interest 

 as determining a species which had hitherto been unidentified 

 in England. In 1875, when v.riting the second volume of 

 the ' Catalogue of Birds,' Dr. Sharpe had been unable to 

 determine tlie species further than by quoting Heuglin's 

 description of it. The late Mr, Gurney had suggested that 

 Otit^ abi/ssinicits might be identifical with Bubo inilesi, Sharpe; 

 but a corapariso)! of tlie two birds showed that this was not 

 the case, although the former species was really a Buho and 

 'January -j'lth. l-^OS," 



