BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



BJo. LXIV. 



The sixty-third Meeting of the Club -nas held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 3.2 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, tne 

 21st of June, 1899. 



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



Members present : — Boyd Alexander, E. Bidwell, J, L. 

 BoNHOTE, A. F. Grossman, P. Crowley, R. A. Crowley, 

 Dr. F. D. Drewitt, E. F. Fenwick, W. R. Ogilvie Grant 

 {Acting Editor), E. Hartert, G. E. Lodge, E. Neale, 

 R. Nesham, F. Penrose, M.D., Hon. W, Rothschild, 

 ]\1.P., H. Saunders {Treasurer), A. D. Sapsworth, H. 

 ScHERREN, F. C. Selous, Dr. A. C- Stark, E. C. Taylor, 

 N. F. Ticehurst, J. I. S. Whitaker, L. A. Williams. 



Visitors: T. F. Althaus, Sir Hugh Beevor, Bart., M.D., 



P. W. HOLDEN. 



The announcement of the unexpected death of Mr. Joh n 

 Whitehead, the well-known naturalist and explorer, was re- 

 ceived with great regret. A telegram had been received from 

 Hainan stating that he had succumbed to a severe attack of 

 fever on the 2nd of June. ]\Ir. Whitehead had left this 

 country in January with the intention of completing his 

 investigation of the Philippine Fauna and exploring the high- 

 lands of Hainan and Formosa. Finding it impossible to do 

 any work in the Philippines in their present disturbed state, 



[July Ath, 1S90.J 



