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Raptores to the Italian avifauna. A young male Aguila 

 rapax was shot in November 1898, at Stagno di Cagliari in 

 Sardinia; and a young female Buteo desertorum was ob- 

 tained in the flesh in the market of Foggia in February 

 1899, so that there could be no doubt of its having been 

 shot in the neighbourhood. Full descriptions of both the 

 specimens are given. 



105. Barring ton on the Migration of Birds at Irish Light- 

 Stations. 



[The Migration of Birds as observed at Irish Lighthouses and Light- 

 ships, including the Original Reports from 1888-97, now published for 

 the first time, and an Analysis of these and the previously published 

 Reports from 1881-87 ; together with an Appendix giving the measure- 

 ments of about 1600 Wings. By Richard M, Barrington. Pp. 285 

 Analysis, pp. G60 Reports. London, R. XL Porter; Dublin, Edward 

 Ponsonby, 1000.] 



It is hardly necessary to remind our readers that Reports 

 on the Migration of Birds as observed at Light-stations in 

 the United. Kingdom were published by a Committee of 

 the British Association from 1881-87 inclusive, after which 

 they were discontinued, and the preparation of a digest was 

 entrusted to Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, who completed his task in 

 1896. Reference to ' The Ibis ' for 1897, p. 272, will show our 

 high appreciation of the manner in which he performed this 

 onerous work. After 1887 it appears to have been considered 

 that enough had been done, and, at all events, no further 

 schedules were issued from the Association ; but Mr. Barring- 

 ton held different views, and was of the opinion that no digest 

 could yield satisfactory results unless it were based upon 

 a much longer series of years. He has, accordingly, con- 

 tinued, at great personal expense, the issue of schedules 

 to the Light-stations of Ireland for ten years longer, with 

 the result that not merely bald, and often unsatisfying, 

 records have been furnished by the light-keepers, but, in 

 addition, over two thousand specimens of birds — or wings 

 and feet of birds — have been forwarded to him, leading to 

 very important identifications. Among these may be men- 

 tioned the Woodchat Shrike (Lanius pomeranus), unique 



