BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



]^o. CLXXXI. 



The hundred and seventy-nintli Meeting of the Cluh was 

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

 on Wednesday, the 9th of October, 1912. 



Chauman: Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



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

 man, C. D. Borrer, p. F. Bunyarb, W. Fitzherbert- 

 Brockholes, E. Hartert, Ph.D., Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, 

 G. E. Lodge, G. A, Macmillan, G. M. Mathews, H.Munt, 

 T. H. Newman, T. Parkin, C. E. Pearson, F\ G. Penrose, 

 M.D., F. R. Ratclife, G. Schwann, W. L. Sclater, 



E. C. Selous, D. Seth-Smith, E. Fraser Stanford, 

 C. B. Ticehurst, M.R.C.S., N. F. Ticehurst, F.R.C.S., 

 H. M. Wallis, J. Wilkinson. 



Visitors: — G. R. Baynes, H. A. A. Dombrain, C. E. 

 Fagan, I.S.O., J. O. Hartert, Godfrey Lambert, 



F. W. Smalley, E. Stresemann. 



At a Meeting o£ the Committee of the Club the following 

 Officers were elected for the ensuing Session, 1912-1913 : — 



P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., Chairman. >''^iitSO^'^'^ 



W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Editor, ^^ 



H. F. WiTHERBY, Secretary and Treastivr. KjQV ^^ * 

 W. L. Sclater, Editor of the 'Ibis.' V 



E. Hartert. ^^^thn?\ T^*^"^ 



C. B. RicKETT (in place of W. L. Sclater). 

 N. F. Ticehurst. 



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