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BULLETIN 
OF THE 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. 
No, LXIX. 
The sixty-eighth Meeting of the Club was held at the 
Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 
21st of February, 1900. 
Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 
Members present: — E. Bidwell, A. Cowie, A. F. Cross- 
man, W. E. DE WiNTON {Treasurer) , H. E. Dresser, Dr. 
F. D. Drewitt, J. Gerrard, F. H. C. Gould, E. Hartert, 
G. E. Lodge, E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, J. G. Millais, H. C. 
Monro, E. Neale, 11. Nesham, Heatley Noble, E. W. 
Oates, C. E. Pearson, H. J. Pearson, H. L. Popham, 
Hon. W. Rothschild, M.P., A. D. Sapsworth, H. Saun- 
ders, F. C. Selous, R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D. {Editor'), 
N. F. Ticehurst, W. Watkins, C. Whymper, J. Wilkin- 
son, H. F. WiTHERBY, L. A. Williams, A. F. R. Wollaston, 
J. Young. 
Visitors : A. Brooking, W. Goodfellow, C. B. Hill, 
J. Maltwood, T. a. Hauxwell, J. Harbottle. 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited an example of a 
new species of Hemipode from North Queensland, sent to 
him by Mr. Herbert C, Robinson, who had described it as 
follows : — 
Turnix olivii,. sp. u. 
$ . Most nearly allied to T. castanonota (Gould) $ and 
resembling it in general coloration, but differing in its much 
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