BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



No. I*XI. 



The sixtieth IMuctingof the Club was held at the liestauraut 

 Frascati; 3:2 Oxford Street^, on Wednesday, the loth of 

 Mareh, 1899. 



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



Member^; present : — E. Bidttell, F. E. Blaauw^, A. F, 

 Crossmax, W. E. De Wixtox, Dr. F. D. Drewitt, A.. H. 

 EvAN's, J. Gerhard, W. H. Hudson, J. IMcLean Marshall, 

 E. G. B. ]\Ieade- Waldo, H. C. ^Ionro, R. L. Patterson, 

 C. E. Pearson, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, M.D., T. Digby 

 PiGOTT, C.B., W. P. PycrafTj H. Saunders {Treasurer), 

 Capt. G. E. Shelley, ]N~. F. Ticehurst, Major H. Terry, 

 W. F. Urwick, C. Whymper. 



Visitor: J. A, Brooke. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe sent for exhibition a specimen of an 

 Q-u"] from Sao Paulo, Brazil, which he was at first inclined 

 to refer to a new ^cuus, but wliicli he found, somewliat to 

 his surprise, to be a Gisella, allied to G. harrisi of Colombia. 

 The specimen in question had been sent to him by Dr. von 

 Iherins: for identification, along with other species. 

 ■ The position of the genus Giselta, according to 

 ;Mr. Py craft's recent classification of the Owls, is not with 

 Syrmuiii, as Dr. Sharpe had placed it in 1875, but nearer to 

 Xyciala, as had b.en proposed by -Messrs. Sclater and Salviu 

 in the ' Nomenclator ■* (p. 116). In plumage the species of 

 Gisella are not unlike Nyctala. but the two genera are 

 evidently distinct; the asymmetry of the ear-openings, a 



[3Iarch 30th, 1S99,] 



