BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



No. XCIX. 



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

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 17th of June, 1903. 



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



Members present : — E. Bidwell, W. E. de Winto.v 

 (Treasure!*) , H. E. Dresser, F. Finn, C. Garnett, J. Ger- 

 rard, H. Goodchild, W. R. Ogilvie Grant, E. Hartert, 



E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, H. Munt, E. Neale, R. Nesham, 



F. Penrose, M.D., R. H. Read, A. St. G. Sargeaunt, 

 A. D. Sapsworth, Howard Saunders, D. Seth-Smith, 

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

 N. F. Ticehurst, M.D., Watkin Watkins, C. A. .Wright. 



Visitor: Capt. Stanley S. Flower. 



The Chairman, on behalf of the Members, congratulated 

 Mr. Ogilvie Grant on his safe return from his expedition to 

 the Azores. Mr. Grant, who received a warm welcome from 

 those present, made a few remarks on his visit to the diffe- 

 rent islands of the Azores, a full account of which will be 

 published later on. 



Dr. N. F. Ticehurst exhibited specimens of some Pratin- 

 coles recently shot in England. The first was a male 

 Collared Pratincole (Glareola pratincola) , which had been 

 shot by Mr. Southerden at Jury Gap in Romney Marsh, 

 on the 30th May, 1903. This specimen was seen in the 

 [June 30th, 1903.] ^ vol. xiii. 



