BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



Wo. CVIII. 



The hundred and seventh Meeting of the Club was held at 

 the Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, 

 the 15th of June, 1904. 



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



Members present: — E. Bidwell, W. E. de Winton (Trea- 

 surer), F. D. Drewitt, M.D., A. H. Evans, F. Finn, 

 H. Goodchild, W. R. Ogilvie-Gbant, G. E. Lodge, E. G. 

 B. Meade-Waldo, E. S. Montagu, H. Munt, M. J. Nicoll, 

 T. Parkin, C. E. Pearson, F. Penrose, M.D., W. P. Pycraft, 

 lion. N. C. Rothschild, Hon. Walter Rothschild, D.Sc., 

 M.P., H. Scherren, F. C. Selotjs, F. Sharman, R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, LL.D. (Editor), D. Seth-Smith, H. F. Witherby. 



Visitors : Hon. F. R. Henley, Dr. Jordan, J. Parkin. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, D.Sc, exhibited and 

 made remarks on a series of Barn-Owls as follows : — 



" I have brought these Barn-Owls to illustrate a few 

 of the features of geographical variation in one species, and 

 at the same time to endeavour to show how much more 

 interesting the study of Ornithology is made if we take into 

 account geographical variation, however slight, instead of 

 uniting under one head all forms which are not sufficiently 

 differentiated to be considered species or subspecies in the 

 widest sense. 



[June 25th, 1904.] 



