B U Iv L F. r I N 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. CLXVI. 



The hundred and sixty-fourth INIeeting oE the Club was liehl 

 at Pagani^s Restaurant, 42-4;8 Great Portland Street, W., oa 

 Wednesday, the 11th of January, 1911. 



Chairman: P. L. Sclatek, D.Sc, F.R.S. 



Members present: — W. I. Beaumont, E. Bidwell, C. D. 

 BoBRER, P. F. BuNYARD, C. J. Carroll, C. Chubb, Colouel 

 S. R. Clarke, E. V. Earle, Rev. J. R. Hale, E. Hartert, 

 Ph.D., Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, G. M. Mathews, H. Munt, 

 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant [Editor), C. Oldham, C. E. Pear- 

 son, A. E. Price, Major F. W. Proctor, R. H. Read, 

 C. B. Rickett, Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., A. D. 

 Sapsworth, W. L. Sclater, F. C. Selous, D. Seth-Smith, 

 J. H. Stenhouse, M.B., R.N., N. F. Ticehurst, F.R.C.S., 

 S. J. White, H. F. Witherby {Sec. ^ Treas.). 



Visitors : — T. P. Aldworth, J. C Hartert, R. O. 

 Mathews, Rev. C. E. Roberts. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild and Dr. E. H/rRTE^nian iUith "" 

 exhibited and described examples of an Atlantijr '^^irel, ^0 



which they proposed to call 



PUFFINUS OBSCURUS ATLANTICUS, Subsp. n., 



and made the following remarks : — 



" In 1899 (c/. Nov. Zool. vi. p. 194) we reviewed the 



[Januarij 2Srd, 1911.] vol. xxvii 



