BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No, CLXXI. 



The hundred and sixty-ninth Meeting of the Club was held 

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

 Wednesday, the 14th of June, 1911. 



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

 Members present : — P. H. Bahr^M.B., D. A. Bannerman, 



E. BiDWELL, J. L. BONHOTE, C. D. BoRRER^ P. F. BuNYARD, 



E. Gibson, J. M. Goodall, H. Goodchild, J. H. Gurney, 

 Rev. J. R. Hale, Rev. P. C. R. Jourdaix, W. E. F. Mac- 

 MiLLAN, G. M. Mathews, T, H. Newman, M. J. Nicoll, 

 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant {Editor), C. Oldham, C. E. Pearson, 



F. G. Penrose, M.D., A. E. Price, C. B. Rickett, A. D. 

 Sapsworth, D. Seth-Smith, N. F. Ticehurst, F.R.C.S., 

 H. F. WiTHERBY {Sec. 6f Treas.). 



Visitors : — C. G. Abbott, R. O. Mathews, L. Spalding. 



Mr. G. M. Mathews described the following new species 

 and subspecies of birds from Australia : — 



Piezorhynchus nitidus wardelli, subsp. n. 

 Adult male. Differs from typical P. nitidus, Gould, in 

 having a shorter and wider bill, the general coletmieenefr" 



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