Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. 361 
Gallicrex cinerea (Gm.) ; Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1891, 
p. 535. 
Nests in the long grass, but is not common. Native 
name <{ Manugtul.” 
The specimen sent was shot in a field of young cane on 
the 8th of April, 1899. 
XIX.— Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. 
Nos. LXVII.-LXIX. 
No. LXVII. (December 30th, 1899). 
The sixty-sixth Meeting of the Club was held at the 
Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 
13th of December, 1899. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S, 
Twenty-five Members and five guests were present. 
The Chairman referred in feeling terms to the loss which 
ornithological science had sustained by the death of Dr. A. 
C. Stark, who had been killed by a shell during the recent 
fighting at Ladysmith in Natal, whither he had repaired to 
render medical aid to the wounded soldiers. 
A vote of condolence to the relatives of the deceased 
naturalist was unanimously passed by the Meeting. 
Dr. Bo'vvdler Sharpe also alluded to the untimely death 
of Colonel Henry P. Northcott, during the first battle on 
the Modder River. A list of the birds obtained by the 
deceased officer in the hinterland of the Gold Coast had 
recently appeared in the ‘ Bulletin ’ (see above, p. 183). 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., exhibited a pair of 
the rare Eupetes geislerorum, A. B. Meyer. 
This species had been described from German New Guinea 
by Dr. Meyer, and had not before been seen in any English 
collection, having hitherto been known only from the 
types in the Dresden Museum. It was remarkable for the 
different colour of the sexes ; and examples collected by 
