386 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



increase of the Starling in Scotland, illustrated by a useful 

 coloured map. The author points out that Sturnus vulgaris 

 has been a resident in the Shetlands, Orkneys, and Outer 

 Hebrides from time immemorial, and has inhabited the 

 north-eastern portion of Caithness since 1791, but that over 

 the rest of the mainland of Scotland its distribution has been 

 sparse, or subject to remarkable fluctuations, until com- 

 paratively recent times. To this essay Mr. Robert Service 

 contributes a supplement in No. 14, giving further details of 

 the arrival of the Starling in the Solway district, where the 

 bird was rare, even in 1863, as a breeder, and he alludes to 

 the row of spikes driven into the wall of Lincluden Abbey 

 by John MacKenzie in May 1842, in order to reach the nest 

 of this great rarity. Mr. W. Eagle Clarke has a valuable 

 article, also illustrated by a map, on the recent visitation 

 of the Little Auk [Mergulus alle) to Scotland, and in both 

 of the numbers are records of several rare or interesting 

 occurrences in North Britain. In our former notice, by a 

 slip of the pen, we remarked that Mr. Clarke had shown 

 the probability of the Hawfinch having bred in Berwickshire : 

 it should have been in Midlothian. 



65. 'Aquila.' A New Journal of Ornithology . 



[Aquila. A Magyar Ornitliologiai Kozpont Folyoirata. Redact. Her- 

 man Otto. I. Nos. 3, 4 (1894).] 



' Aquila ■* (as already announced, see ^Ibis,' 1894, p. 553) 

 is the title of the new journal of ornithology published at 

 Budapesth as the organ of the Hungarian Ornithological 

 Centre. The present part commences with a short biography 

 of Samuel Fenichel, a zoological collector, who lately lost 

 his life in the Finisterre Mountains in New Guinea. Various 

 interesting extracts from his last letters are added, and a list 

 of the birds which he collected during his short career in 

 New Guinea. These were altogether 95 in number, amongst 

 which three were new to science, namely, Arses fenicheli, 

 Donacicola sharpii, and Poecilodryas hermani. The Arses is 

 described here, the other two have already been characterized 

 by Dr. Madarasz (see Bull. B. O. C. iii. p. xlvii). 



