BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



Wo. CVII. 



The hundred and sixth Meeting of the Club was held at 

 the Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, 

 the 18th of May, 1904. 



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



Members present : — E. Bidwell, J. L. Bonhote, F. D. Dre- 

 witt, M.D., F. Gillett, H. Goodchild, E. Hartert, Ph.D., 

 G. E. Lodge, E. S. Montagu, E. Neale, M. J. Nicoll, 

 T. Parkin, F. G. Penrose, M.D., T. Digby Pigott, C.B., 

 D. Seth-Smith, P. Bowdler Sharps, LL.D. {Editor), 

 C. Swinhoe, W. B. Tegetmeier. 



Visitor: V. R. Balfour-Brown e. 



Mr. W. B. TegeTxMeier exhibited a remarkable parti- 

 coloured egg of the Common Pheasant ; also an extraordinary 

 hour-glass-shaped egg, brown in colour, and believed to be 

 that of a Grouse, in spite of the fact that it was little more 

 than an inch in length. It was probable that the peculiar 

 shape of this egg was due to constriction while in the oviduct 

 and not to the fusion of two separate eggs. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., sent for exhibition 

 a remarkable new Pigeon, which he described as follows : — ■ 



Microgoura, n. gen. 

 Cere naked to the forehead, the naked r soft portion being 

 [May ZOth, 1901] 



VOL. XIV. 



