BULLETIX 



or THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



KTo. Li VIZ. 



The fifty-sixth Meeting of the Ckil) uas held at the Res- 

 tauraut Frascati^ 3.2 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the IGth 

 of November, 1898. " • 



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



Members present: — E. Bidttell, A. F. Crossmax, P. 

 Crowley, W. E. De Wixton, H. E. Dresser, Dr. F. D. 

 Drewitt, E. N. F. Fexwick, E. Hartert, P. H. ]Muxn, 

 H. C. Muxro, R. Nesham, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, M.D,, 

 E. LoRT Phillips, Pt. H. Read, H. Saunders [Treasurer] , 

 H. ScHERREN, Pl. Bo"n"DLER Sharpe {Editor), Major Horace 

 A. Terry, N. F. Ticehurst, J. Wilkinson, L.A.Williams, 



H. F. WiTHERBY. 



Visitors : Dr. P. S. Abraham, W. Drury, F. D. Graham, 

 C. B. HoRSBURGH, A. D. Sapsavorth, a. F. Pl. Wollaston. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild sent for exhibition an egg 

 of the " pTrelve- Wired Bird of Paradise " [Seleucides ignotus 

 or 5. alhus). It had been found in an open nest in the 

 Pandanus-swamp on the Yanapa River in British Nctt 

 Guinea, on a Pandanus tree. The nest -^vas a large struc- 

 ture, about 10 inches across and 6 inches high, consisting 

 externally of dry Pandanus leaves, then of pieces of rotten 

 ^vood, and lastly of small twigs, the cup being rather 

 fiat and by no means softly lined. The single e^^ found 



[Foveviber 2Sth, 189S.] 



