Mr. LoRT Phillips also exhibited the nest of Eurocephalas 

 rueppeUi, described by him in the ' Ibis' for 1898 (p. 406). 



Dr. BoT\"DLER Sharpe sent the first sheets of a new 

 ' Handlist of Birds/ of which the first volume would shortly 

 be published by the Trustees of the British Museum. In 

 its preparation Dr. Sharpe had already been engaged for the 

 last five years^ and he ventured to hope that ornithologists 

 of every country would give him their assistance in endea- 

 vouring to make the aew ' Handlist •* as complete as possible. 

 An attempt would be made in this new editiou to incorporate 

 all the fossil birds in their systematic places. 



Mr. ScLATER exhibited a skin of a Tanager {.Calliste 

 pretiosa) which ha,d been obtained by Mr. A. H. Holland at 

 liis residence, Estancia Sta. Elena, in the Argentine tlepublic, 

 on November loth, 1897. It appeared to be in full adult 

 .plumage, and was labelled " ^ . Bill, legs, and iris black.'" 



Mr. Sclater remarked that this was the first occurrence 

 of this species in the Argentine Pi.epubl;c, it having been 

 previously known only from Paraguay and South Brazil 

 (see Sclater, Cat. Birds B. M. xi. p. ll^}. 



Mr. Philip Crowley exhibited some photographs of the 

 nests and eggs of British Birds. 



^Ir, BiDWELL proposed to bring before the Club, at its 

 Meeting iti February, some examples of abnormal nests of 

 British Birds. 



The next ^Meeting of the Club will be held on Wednesday, 

 the ]8th of January, 1899, at 8.oO, at the Ptestaurant 

 Frascati, 32 Oxford Street ; the Dinn.r at 7 p..m. 



(Signed) 



P. L. Sclater, R. Bowdler Sharpe, Howard Saunders, 



Chairman. Editor. ,i'fc. 6,- Treus. 



