BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



"No. LiViri. 



The fifty -seventh Meeting of tlie Club \ras held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati^ 32 Oxford Street^ on Wednesday^ the 

 21st of December, 1898. 



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



3Iembers p7^esent : — E. Bidwell, Major Cowie, R..E.; A. F. 

 Grossman, P. Crowley, Pt. A. Crowley, W. E. De Winton, 

 H. E. Dresser, A. H. Evans, E. N. F. Fenwick, E. Hartert, 

 Col. Paget W. L'Estrange, H. C. Monro, H. Munt, 

 R. Nesham, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, M.D., E. Lort 

 Phillips, W. P. Pycraft, H. Saunders {Treasurer), Major 

 H. A. Terry, N. F. Ticehurst, W. F. Urwick, L. A. 

 Williams, H. F. Witherby. 



Visitors : J. Cyril Crotvley, F. Curtis, C. E. Fagan, 

 — Greenstock, Percy L^Estrange, Arnold Mathev^'s, 

 F. E. Mugford, H. Stevens, L. Wiglesworth. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert characterized three new species of 

 birds from the Louisiade Archipelago. He said that this 

 group of islands, situated to the south-east of New Guinea, 

 had been visited by Macgillivray during the voyage of H.M.S. 

 ' Rattlesnake,^ when a few birds had then been collected, 

 and that more recently Canon Tristram and Mr. De Vis had 

 described a few new forms from various islands of the group, 

 but no large collections of birds had ever been made there. 

 ]Mr. Albert S. Meek had recently stayed on various islands 



[Dtcemher Sl^f, 1S9S.] 



