BULLETIX 



Gi" TUi: 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



K"o. TtlJZ, 



The fifty-eighth ]\Ieeting of the Club was held at the 

 Kestaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 ISth of January, 189.9. 



Chairmafi : P. L, Sclatek, F.U.S. 



Members present : — G. E. H. Barrett- Hamilton, E. 

 BiDWELL, W. E. De Wixtox, H. E. Dresser, Dr. F. D. 

 Drewitt, a. H. Evans, E. N. F. Fenwick, E. PIartert, 

 J. G. jMillais, H.. ]\Iuxt, E. Neale, 11. Nesham, E. W. 

 Gates, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, M.D., W. P. Pvcraft, 

 H. Saunders [Treasurer). Dw R. Bowdler Sharfe [Editor)^ 

 Rev. H. H. Slater, F. W. Styan, W. B. Tegetmeier, 

 N. F. TiCEHURST, Watkin AYatkins, Johnson Wilkinson, 



H. F. WlTHERBY. 



Visitor : Edgar Vv'illiamson. 



Dr. BoAVDLER Sharpe laid on the table a copy of a ]\IS. 

 " Index ■'"' to tlie generic names employed iu tjje ' Catalogne 

 of Birds, ^ vihicli had been prepared by Mr. F. H. A^'aterhouse 

 and presented by Dr. Schatertothe Natural History ]\Iuseum 

 for the use of students in the Bird-room of that institution. 

 The Committee had agreed that this \rorh should be pub- 

 lished as an extra volume of the ' Bulletin " of the B. O. C. 



Dr. Sharpe exhibited a specimen of a Petrel of the genus 

 CEstrelaia Avhich had been forwarded to him by Dr. J. vou 



[Januari/ oOth, lS99.j 



