BULLETIN 



OF THi: 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



No. lill. 



The fifty-first Meeting of the Club was held at the Restau- 

 rant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the IGtli of 

 March, 1898. 



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



Members irrtseni : — Boyd Alexander. G. E. II. Barrett- 

 Hamilton, E. BiDWELL, F. E. Blaauw, Dr. J. Rose Brad- 

 ford, F.R.S., W; E. De Winton, Lieut.-Col. W. H. M. 

 DuTHiE, A. H. Evans, E. N. F. Fexttick, J. Gerrard, 

 G. E. Lodge, E. Neale, E.. Nesham, E. W. Oates, R. Lloyd 

 Patterson, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, M.D., E. Lort 

 Phillips, T. Djgby Pigott, C.B., W. P. Pycraft, A.L.S., 

 H. Saunders {Treasurer), Pu Bowdler Sharpe {Editor), 

 A. Trevor-Battye, H. M. Upcher, L. A. "Williams, H. F. 

 Witherby. 



Visitors : Dr. E. Gwynn, Reginald Lodge. 



Mr. W. E. De Winton exhibited a specimen of Perdix 

 daurica, puj'chased in Leadenhall Market. Several hundred 

 specimens of this Bearded Partridge Avere on sale in the 

 market, but their exact origin could not be ascertained. 

 The birds vrere in excellent condition and had evidently not 

 been shot. That they had come from some Mahommedan 

 district of Asia Tras equally certain, as every specimen ex- 

 amined at tliC British INIuseum was found to have its throat 

 cut! 



[MarcJ, 28th, 1898.' 



