

BULLETIN 



OF THK 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. LXXXIX. 



The eighty-eighth Meeting of the Club whs held at the 



Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, 

 the 21st of May, 1902. 



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



Members present :— E. Bidwell, B. A. E. Buttress, \Y. E. 

 de Winton (Treasurer), F. D. Drewitt, M.D., A. II. Evans, 

 H. Goodchild, E. Hartert, G. E. Lodce, E. G. B. Meade- 

 Waldo, II. Munt, F. G. Penrose, M.D., H. L. Popham, 

 II. Saunders, H. Scherren, W. L. Sclater, P. C. Selous, 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D. (Editor), W. B. Tegetmeilk, 

 A. Tiiorburn, II. M. Wallis, C. Whymper. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited some specimens of rocks 

 from the Falkland Islands, showing the ' scores ' made by 

 the Rock-Hopper Penguin (Catarrhactes chrysocome) in the 

 course of time. The marks made by the feet of thousands 

 of these birds constantly landing on the rocks were plainly 

 perceptible. The specimens had been brought from the 

 Falkland Islands by Mr. Rupert Vallentin. 



With reference to Dr. Bianchi's note communicated to 

 the Club at its last meeting, Mr. Oates desired to state that 

 Dr. Sclater, many years ago (Ibis, 1890, p. 255), had pointed 

 out that the generic name Sittiparus instituted by Mr. Oates 

 (Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 171, 1889) for a genus of 

 [May 31st, 1902.] vjgfjJoia^xS* '7 - , 



"TuL 3 1902 



