BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB 



No. LXXXVIII. 



The eighty-seventh Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, 

 the 16th of April, 1902. 



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



Members present : — Dr. J. C. Baker, E. Bidwell, B. A. E. 

 Buttress, Major A. H. Cowie, R.E., W. E. de Winton 

 (Treasurer), H. E. Dresser, H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., E. N. F. 

 Fenwick, H. Goodchild, F. H. C. Gould, E. Hartert, 

 G. E. Lodge, B. Martin, Colonel Mason, E. S. Montagu, 

 II. Munt, R. Nesham, H. Noble, T. Parkin, H. J. Pearson, 

 F. G. Penrose, M.D., A. E. Price, R. H. Read, Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, M.P., A. D. Sapsworth, H. Saunders, F. C. 

 Selous, A. Thorburn, W. B. Tegetmeier, N. F. Tice- 

 hurst, A. Trevor-Battye, W. Watkins. 



Visitors : T. F. Althaus, C. B. Brown, W. L. Distant, 

 F. Carruthers Gould, B. W. Willett. 



A communication was read from Dr. Bowdler Sharpe 

 calling attention to an interesting species of Lark represented 

 in Lord Delamere's collection from the Athi River, in British 

 East Africa. Along with several specimens of the new 

 species, Spizocorys athensis (Bull. B. O. C. x. p. ci, 1900), 

 there was a single example of Calandrella acutirostris of 

 Hume, this being the first instance recorded of the occurrence 

 of this Asiatic species in Africa. He also pointed out the 



[April 28th, 1902.] vol. xii. 



