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BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. CXCVIIe 



The hundred and ninety-fourth Meeting of the Club was held 

 at Pagani's Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, W., 

 on Wednesday, the 8th of April, 1914. 



Chairman: E. G. B. Meade-Waldo. 



Members present : — E. C. Stuart Baker, D. A. Banner- 

 man, G. K. Baynes, E. Bidwell, C. Borrer, Major 

 B. R. Horsbrugh, G. C. Lambert, G. E. Lodge, H. Munt, 

 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant (Editor), C. Oldham, C. B. Rickett, 

 F. C. Selous, D. Seth- Smith, II. F. Witherby {Sec. fy 

 Treas.). 



Visitor-. — C. Court Treatt. 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker exhibited a male specimen and 

 a chick of the very rare Eared Pheasant, Crossoptilon 

 harmani, and made the following remarks : — " This bird 

 has been represented hitherto by the type specimen only 

 obtained by Mr. H. J. Elwes 150 miles east of Lhassa. It 

 consists principally of the head and neck, the tail, and some 

 portions of the body. A specimen of C. auritum, the species 

 to which C. harmani is most nearly allied, is also exhibited, 

 in order to demonstrate the differences between the two 



[April I8t/i, 1914.] vol. xxxiii. 



