BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CLXXXV. 



The hundred and eighty-third Meeting of the Club was held 

 at Pagani's Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, W., 

 on Wednesday, the 12th of February, 1913. 



Chairman : Hon. W. Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



Members present: — E.C.Stuart Baker, D. A.Bannerman, 



E. BlDWELL, C. D. BoRRER, P. F. BuNYARD, E. V. EaRLE, 



F. W. Frohawk, E. Gibson, C. H. B. Grant, Gerald Gur- 

 ney, J. H. Gurney, E. Hartert, Ph.D., C. Ingram, Staff- 

 Surgeon Kenneth H. Jones, R.N., G. E. Lodge, W. E. F. 

 Macmillan, G. M. Mathews, E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, 

 H. Munt, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant {Editor), C. Oldham, 

 T. Parkin, Sir Thomas Digby Pigott, C.B., W. J. Percy 

 Player, A. E. Price, Major F. W. Proctor, W. P. Pycraft, 

 F. R. Ratcliff, R. H. Read, C. B. Rickett, W. L. Sclater, 

 M. C. C. Seton, E. Fraser Stanford, J. H. Stenhouse, 

 M.B., R.N., C. B.Ticehurst, M.R.C.S., S. L. Whymper, 

 H. F. Witherby (Sec. §• Treas.). 



Visitors : — T. P. Aldworth, H. D. Astley, G. K. Baynes, 

 J. Borrer, H.Macdonald, C. Keith Murray, W. J. Player, 

 H. Stevens, E. Stresemann, Hugh Whistler. 



Before commencing the business of the evening the 

 Chairman said it was his sad duty to call attention to the 

 deaths of three well-known Members of the Club. 



[February 27th, 1913.] a vol. xxxi. 



