BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. XCVIII. 



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

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 20th of May, 1903. 



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



Members present : — Boyd Alexander, E. Bidwell, 

 Colonel C. T. Bingham, J. L. Bonhote, W. C. J. Ruskin 

 Butterfield, W. E. de Winton (Treasurer), H. E. Dresser, 

 H. J. Elwes, F.R.S. , E. Gillett, H. Goodchild, E. 

 Hartert, E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, E. S. Montagu, H. Munt, 

 E. Neale, T. Parkin, C. E. Pearson, F. Penrose, M.D., 

 E. Lort Phillips, A. E. Price, W. P. Pycraft, R. H. Read, 

 A. D. Sapsworth, D. Seth-Smith, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 

 LL.D. (Editor), E. Cavendish Taylor, W. B. Tegetmeier. 



Visitors : Dr. C. Christy, Dr. F. Lippelt, Amtsrath Ad. 

 Nehrkorn, Colonel C. Swinhoe. 



The Chairman gave to Herr Nehrkorn a warm welcome 

 on behalf of the Club, to which that gentleman suitably 

 replied. 



Dr. Sclater gave a short account of his recent tour 

 round the Mediterranean in the Orient-Pacific S.S. f Cuzco/ 

 in the course of which he had visited Palma, Nice, Palermo, 

 Crete, Cyprus, Beyrout, Baalbec, Damascus, Haifa, Acre, 

 Jaffa, Jerusalem, Jericho, Alexandria, Cairo, Algiers, 

 Gibraltar, Lisbon, and other places, and had seen much of 



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