Members of the 

 Committee. 



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The Secretary drew attention to an alteration in 

 Rule vii., which had been made at a Committee Meeting 

 held on the 13th of August. The Rule, as altered, would 

 be found printed on page vi of Volume xxxi. 



The Secretary also announced that at the same Meeting 

 the following Officers and Committee had been elected : — 



The Hon. "Walter Rothschild, Chairman. 

 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Editor. 

 H. F. Witherby, Secretary and Treasurer. 

 E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, Vice-Chairman^ 



(in place of E. Hartert, retiring by 



seniority) . 



C. B. RlCKETT. 



W. L. Sclater, Editor of ' The Ibis,' 



Vice- Chairman. 

 N. F. Ticehurst. 



Mr. W. L. Sclater exhibited the silver centre-piece repre- 

 senting an Ibis standing on a globe, which had been pre- 

 sented by the Members of the Club to the late Dr. P. L. 

 Sclater. When shown at the June meeting it had been in 

 an unfinished state, and he thought that those present 

 would like to have an opportunity of seeing their gift now 

 that it had been completed. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant said that he was indebted to 

 the kindness of Mr. Alfred Heneage Cocks for the loan of 

 eight examples of the Spitsbergen Ptarmigan {Lagopus 

 hyperboreus Sundevall), five of which he had brought for 

 exhibition, together with specimens in summer-plumage of 

 the Common Ptarmigan (L. mutus), the Rock-Ptarmigan 

 (L. rupestris), and the Ryper or Willow-Grouse (L. lagopus), 

 for comparison. 



Though first described by Sundevall in 1815, the Spits- 

 bergen Ptarmigan was still a very rare species in collections, 

 and the British Museum possessed two examples only — the 

 type-specimen of L. hemileucurus Gould, an adult female 



