BULLETIN 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



No. LXXX. 



The seventy-niuth Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Fraseati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, 

 the 22nd of May, 1901. 



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



Members present : — Colonel C. T. Bingham, F. Curtis, 

 H. E. Dresser, W. E. de Winton {Treasurer), Colonel 

 Duthie, W. Goodfellow, F. H. Carruthers Gould, E. 

 Hartert, J. E. Harting, G. E. Lodge, J. G. Millais, 

 H. Monro, E. S. Montagu, E. Neale, C. E. Pearson, F. G. 

 Penrose, M.D., E. Lort Phillips, A. E. Price, Hon. N. 

 Chas. Rothschild, Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., A. D. 

 Sapsworth, R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D. {Editor), A. J. 

 Simey, A. Thorburn, H. F. Witherby, A. F. R. Wol- 



L ASTON. 



Visitors : K. E. Mackenzie, R. E. Vaugh an- Williams. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert made some remarks on Alaudidce. 



In the 'Novitates ZoologicEe' for 1900 (pp. 45, 46) he 

 had distinguished a number of sub-species of Mirafra 

 africana, and among others had described a very light form 

 from the Athi Plains, in British East Africa, as Mirafra 

 africana athi. Of this very distinct race, Mr. W. Doherty 

 had now sent to Mr. Rothschild a series from an elevation of 

 from 6000 to 6500 feet on the Mau Escarpment, near the 

 present terminus of the Uganda Railway. These specimens 

 \_May 31s*, 1901.] vol. xi. 



