Recently published Ornithological Works. 199 



counties of Argyll and Aberdeen. Examples of the Golden 

 Oriole, a very rare wanderer to Scotland, occurred in the 

 Sohvay area at the end of April, and in Clackmannanshire on 

 the 19th of May. In the October number. Col. John Campbell 

 records the recent increase of the Stock-Dove and of four 

 species of Ducks in the Tay area, and discusses the reasons 

 assignable for the decrease of other birds. Lt.-Col. L. H. Irby 

 follows with a short but very useful paper containing com- 

 parative lists of the birds found on Coll and Tiree, islands 

 which are not far apart, but differ in natural couditions, and 

 consequently in their avifaunas. Mr. Harvie-Brown repro- 

 duces Mr. Heatley Xoble^s account of the nesting of the 

 Scaup-Duck in Sutherland, with some remarks ; and a feu- 

 interesting occurrences are recorded among the minor 

 notices. 



3. Arrigoni degli Oddi on rare Italian Birds. 



[Elenco degii Uccelli rari u piii difficili ad aversi couservati iiella sua 

 CoUezione Ornitologica Italiaua al 31 DiceiuLre, 1898. Pel Prof. 

 Ettore Arrig-oni degli Oddi. ' Oruis,' ix. p. 199.] 



Professor Arrigoni describes some of the choice specimens 

 of his collection of Italian birds at Ca^ Oddo, near Monselice, 

 formed since 1883, and containing at present some 4500 

 specimens. x\mong the 179 species enumerated are ex- 

 amples of Nyctala tengmalmi, Muscicapa -pari' a, Tardus 

 fuscatus ,Dromohea leucura, Motucilla lugabris , Melanocorypha 

 sibirica, Eaiberlza ccesla, and Cygnus musicus. There are 2 

 specimens of Larus genei \L.gelastes~\ from the Italian penin- 

 sula, and an example of Colymhus glacialis from the Lago di 

 Garda. Porphyrio caruleus is stated to occur regularly in the 

 marshes round the Lake of Lesiua in Tuscany. 



4. ' The Auk.' 



[The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Oruithology. Vol. xvi. Nos. 3 

 and 4, July and October, 1899.] 



The coloured plate in the former of these numbers contains 

 figures of the first plumages of Dendroica coronata and Icteria 

 virens to illustrate a pa|-,er on sequence of plumages by 



