BULLETIX 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



mo. t.rv. 



The fif'ty-tliird ]\Ieeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 18th of May, 1898. 



Chair/nan : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Members present : — G. Barrett-Hamilton, R. M, Bar- 



RIXGTON, E. BiDWELL, P. CkOWLEY, W. E. De WiNTON, 



Dr. F. D. DRE^vITT, E. N. F. Fexwick, W. R. Ogilvie 

 Grant, J. H. Gurney, E. Hartert, R. McD. Hawker, 

 G. E. Lodge, H. Munt, E. Neale, R. Nesham, E. W. 

 Gates, C. E. Pearson, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose^ M.D., 

 T. D. Pigott, C.B., W. P. Pycraft, H. Saunders 

 {Treasurer), R. Bowdler Sharpe [Editor), E. Cavendish 

 Taylor, E. P. Tennant, H. M. Wallis, Watkin Watkins, 

 Lionel A. "Williams. 



Visitors : The Earl of Lindsay, R. B. Lodge." 



INIr, Sclater exhibited a pair of eggs of the South African 

 Thick-knee [(Edicntmus capensis), forwarded to him by 

 Mr. J. E. J\latcham, C.T^I.Z.S., of Port EHzabeth, as those of 

 the "Dik-kop " of that district. There was one similar egg 

 of the same species in the collection of the British Museum 

 obtained by lsii\ E. L. Layard. 



{May 20th, 189S.] 



