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that he should have expected the latter bird to have been the 

 Chinese species, Cotile sinensis. 



Mr. W. E. De Winton exhibited some interesting speci- 

 mens of Willow-Grouse and Ptarmigan, selected from a large 

 collection of these birds sent from St. Petersburg. 



Mr. T. Parkin exhibited a skin of a very rare species of 

 Petrel, identified by Mr. Osbert Salvin as (Estrelata incerta 

 of Schlegel. Mr. Parkin shot the bird during a calm, on 

 his recent voyage to the South Atlantic, in lat. 39° 51' S., 

 long. 8° 49' E. 



XXIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 164.] 



38. Annals of Scottish Natural History/. Nos. 11 & 12. 

 1894. 



We have already noticed Mr. W. Ogilvie-Grant^s paper on 

 the plumage of the Red Grouse, but in No. 11 of our con- 

 temporary there are some other interesting papers -which 

 deserve mention. One of these relates to the birds of 

 the Island of Barra, in the Outer Hebrides, by Mr. John 

 MacRury, whom we thank for a separate copy of the entire 

 treatise, concluded in No. 12. Mr. Lionel Hinxman^s 

 valuable report on the movements and occurrences of birds 

 in Scotland during 1893 also runs through the two numbers. 

 In No. 12 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke shows the strong probability 

 of the Hawfinch having actually bred in Berwickshire; it is 

 well known that the species has been gradually spreading 

 northwards for years past. Mr. W. Berry gives an account 

 of the successful introduction of the Red Grouse on Tents- 

 muir, a barren tract of low-lying moorland on the edge of the 

 sea, and nearly as flat. Among the miscellaneous ornitho- 

 logical notes the most important is, perhaps. Dr. Charles 

 Stuart's record of the nesting of the Great Spotted Wood- 

 pecker in Berwickshire. 



