]i U L L E T I N 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



KTo. XCVII. 



The ninety-sixth Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 15th of April, 1903. 



Chairman : Howard Saunders. 



Members present : — Boyd Alexander, E. Bidwell, W. E. 

 de Winton (Treasurer), F. D. Drewitt, M.D., E. N. F. 

 Fenwick, F. W. Frohawk, F. Goodchild, E. Hartert, 

 Major H. Jones, E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, E. S. Montagu, 

 E. Neale, T. Parkin, H. L. Popham, A. E. Price, W. P. 

 Pycraft, H. E. Rawson, A. D. Sapsworth, W. R. Saunders, 

 W. L. Sclater, F. C. Selous, D. Seth-Smith, W. B. Teget- 

 meier, Watkin Watkins, Capt. L. A. Williams, H. F. 

 Witherby, W. H. Workman. 



Visitors : W. G. Faubridge, J. S. Parkin, Major F. W. 

 Proctor, F. R. Ratclifee, L. M. Seth-Smith. 



A communication from Dr. Bowdler Sharpe stated that 

 the British Museum had lately received the nest and eggs 

 (the latter unfortunately broken) of the Antipodes Island 

 Pipit {Anthus steindachneri), with the parent bird. This 

 species differed from Anthus novce zealandice principally in 

 the rufous colour of the under wing-coverts and axillaries, 

 which were whitish in the New Zealand Pipit. The specimens 

 had been sent by Lieut. Kennett Dixon r of H.M.S. f Archer.' 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe also stated that from specimens 

 recently brought home by Messrs. Seimund and Grant from 



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