. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. . 1955 V« . 11T" <& Vol. 75 BUIXETIN OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB Volume 75 Number 9 Published: 1st December, 1955 The five hundred and forty-third meeting was held at the Rembrandt Hotel, South Kensington, on Tuesday, 15th November, 1955, following a dinner at Chairman: Colonel Meinertzhagen Members present: 27; Guests, 10; Total 37 The Chairman welcomed Professor Horstadius from Uppsala, who spoke of the Observatory and Ringing Station which the Swedish Ornitho- logical Association is starting with Italian permissio
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. . 1955 V« . 11T" <& Vol. 75 BUIXETIN OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB Volume 75 Number 9 Published: 1st December, 1955 The five hundred and forty-third meeting was held at the Rembrandt Hotel, South Kensington, on Tuesday, 15th November, 1955, following a dinner at Chairman: Colonel Meinertzhagen Members present: 27; Guests, 10; Total 37 The Chairman welcomed Professor Horstadius from Uppsala, who spoke of the Observatory and Ringing Station which the Swedish Ornitho- logical Association is starting with Italian permission, on the Island of Capri, in a restored ruin above San Michele. A grant towards this inter- national venture has been made by the King of Sweden. Professor Horstadius hoped that some British ornithologists would help work the Observatory. Mrs. Iris Darnton then showed her outstanding colour film From Hippos to Sun Birds, which she had recently made in the Queen Elizabeth and Murchison Falls National Parks and around Entebbe, in Uganda. There were magnificent shots of a wide variety of birds and mammals, those of the various water fowl being particularly remarkable. The sight of a massed flock of Pelicans driving fish into the shallows and then all fishing in unison, submerging their heads simultaneously, had never been witnessed by anyone present. Other pictures showed Black-winged Stilts feeding with their heads under water, and the Cuckoo Shrike at its nest, which was bound to the tree by webs and lichens so that it was almost indistinguishable from the branch. The pictures of the Crimson-breasted Shrike took four days to obtain and amply repaid such patience. The shots of the Hammerkop entering its nest hole by closing its wings tightly to its sides gave rise to an interesting discussion as to how the Golden- eye can enter nest boxes in Sweden, or as Captain Collingwood Ingram mentioned, the disused nest of a Great Black Woodpecker in a vertical, bare fir trunk. Professor
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