BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUP 



No. LXXIII. 



The seventy-second Meeting of the Club was held i 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesd.' 

 20th of June, 1900. 



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



Members present : — E. Bidwell, J. L. Bo 

 tis, W. E. de Winton {Treasurer) , Earl of 

 F. H. C. Gould, G. E. Lodge, J. G. Mill 

 T. Parkin, H. L. Patterson, H. J. Pearso 

 Hou. W. Rothschild, M.P., A. D. S. 

 Selous, F. Shauman, R. Bowdler Sharpe, uu.x 

 E. Cavendish Taylor, N. F. Ticehurst, C. 

 H. F. Witherby. 



Guests : R. W. E. Parker, H. Stevens, G. 



Guests of the Club : Dr. L. von Lorexz (Vi 

 Sushkin (Moscow). 



Mr. H. F. Witherby exhibited a male specimen of Capri- 

 mulgus eximius procured by him on the White Nile near 

 Khartoum, in May 1900. As far as was known this was the 

 fifth example of this bird that had been procured. Three 

 examples were obtained iu 1823 or 1824 by Hey, Ruppell's 

 collector, probably near the White Nile. Two of these were 

 at Frankfurt and one at Leyden (see Hartert, Ibis, 189V 

 [July 3rd, 19U0.] 



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