Fourteenth Annual General Meeting 
The fourteenth OSME AGM will be held on the afternoon of Saturday 1 1 
July 1992, in the Lecture Theatre, Natural History Museum, Cromwell 
Road, South Kensington, London, UK. Further details will be published 
in Bulletin 28. 
Subscription renewals 
Many members find it more convenient to pay their annual subscription 
by Bankers Order, and it certainly helps us. AH UK members will have 
recieved a Bankers Order and Covenant form with their subscription 
reminder. If you can, please change to this method of payment. If you can 
fill in the covenant section (UK tax-payers only), OSME will benefit even 
more, as we can claim back the income tax you paid on your £7. 
If any overseas members have a bank account in the UK and would like 
to pay their subscription by Bankers Order, please write to the Membership 
Secretary for a form. 
Special Gulf meeting, 14 November 1991 
The Flora and Fauna Preservation Society and the British Ornithologists' 
Union have joined OSME for an evening meeting considering the 
environmental aftermath of the war in the Gulf. The two speakers are 
Andrew Price, the Special Advisor to the Marine Programme of lUCN, 
and OSME's Chairman and ICBP Programme Director, Dr Michael 
Rands. 
The meeting will be held at the Meeting Rooms, Zoological Society of 
London, at 6 pm on Thursday 14 November 1991. Tickets are available at 
£6 each (cheques payable to FFPS) from FFPS, 1 Kensington Gore, 
London SW7 2AR. The ticket price includes a wine and cheese buffet. 
Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope, and note that tickets are 
not available from the OSME address. 
OSME tour to Egypt 
Due to the war in the Gulf, the OSME/ Sunbird tour to Egypt planned for 
last April had to be cancelled. We are pleased to announce that the tour 
will be offered again in April 1992, following the same itinerary, but on 
slightly later dates. The tour will run from 2-12 April and will l>e led by 
Mike Everett and Sherif Baha El Din. The tour will visit most of Egypt's 
well-known birdwatching sites, including Suez, Wadi Natrun, the Nile 
at Luxor and Aswan, Abu Simbel and Hurghada on the Red Sea coast. 
Spring migration will be at its peak, and the tour should see a good 
variety of migrating raptors, waders and passerines, as well as Egypt's 
resident birds. Egyptian specialities should include Black-winged Kite 
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