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place of Dr. F. Penrose, who retired by rotation ; and 

 Mr. E. Hartert, in the place of Mr. de Winton. 

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



„, . fH. J. Pearson. 



Vice- Chairmen] TT „ 



I H. Saunders. 



A vote of thanks to Mr. Howard Saunders for his 

 services as Treasurer since the foundation of the Club 

 was proposed by Mr. E. Bidwell, seconded by Dr. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, and carried by acclamation. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild sent for exhibition a pair 

 of Eclectus westermanni, Bp., and made the following 

 remarks : — . - 



" Dr. A. B. Meyer and Dr. Bowdler Sharpe have both 

 expressed their opinion that E. westermanni is an aberration 

 of E. riedeli, Meyer, produced by being kept in captivity; 

 and consequently this idea has been generally adopted as a 

 fact, in spite of the contrary opinion held by Count Salvadori 

 in the ' Catalogue of Birds/ 



(C A few weeks ago a consignment of ten Eclectus wester- 

 manni arrived in London alive, of which six were males and 

 four females, the latter sex being hitherto unknown. The 

 discovery of the female disposes at once of the fiction that 

 this excellent species could be an aberration of E. riedeli, 

 for it has a blue collar and therefore belongs to the E. roratus 

 section. 



" The male differs from all the other species in being 

 entirely green on the breast, while the others (including 

 E. riedeli) have a large patch of red on the sides of breast. 

 (Specimens of E. roratus, E. pectoralis, E. cardinalis, and 

 E. cornelia were exhibited.) 



" The female of E. westermanni is similar to the female of 

 E. pectoralis, but diners iu having a blue collar and dull 

 purple lower breast, while E. pectoralis has both collar and 

 breast of the same bright blue colour. The under tail- 

 coverts are also of a much darker and duller red. The ring 

 of blue round the eyes of E. pectoralis is also absent in 

 E. vjestermanni. Both sexes are likewise much smaller than 

 E. 'pectoralis." 



