126 Recently published Oi'nitholoyical Works. 



was visited, and his interesting collection of Palsearctic birds 

 was inspected. 



Altogether the Meeting was very successful, and sufficed 

 to prove that ornithological activity in Germany is rather 

 increasing than diminishing. 



It was decided that the next Annual Meeting of the 

 German Society should be held in Berlin during the session 

 of the Zoological Congress in August 1901, and a hope was 

 expressed that some of their foreign ornithological colleagues 

 would then be the guests of the Society. 



X. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. Annals of Scottish Natural History. 



[Tlie Annals of Scottish Natural History. No. 35, JiilylQOO, and 

 No. 80, October 1900.] 



In an interesting article Prof essor Newton gives an account 

 of his observations on the Great Shearwater, Puffinus gravis 

 (O'Reilly), in Scottish waters ; in the first instance near the 

 Butt of Lewis on the ,27th of June, 1894<, and, secondly, on 

 the 24th of June, 1895. The birds were in considerable 

 numbers, and most of them were sitting in couples on the 

 water. None were seen to dive, nor did any of them on those 

 occasions strike the water with great violence in pursuit of 

 food, as described by Captain J. W. Collins in the 'Annual 

 Report of the [American] Commissioners for Fish and 

 Fisheries for 1882,'' p. 315, and also by Mr. Robert Warren 

 in ' The Zoologist,' 1894, p. 22. 



Mr. A. Nicol Simpson's " Contribution to the Ornithology 

 of Kincardineshire" is concluded in the October number, 

 and relates to a part of Scotland on the birds of which little 

 has been written. Lt.-Col. Duthie gives an account of the 

 semi-domesticated Greylags {Anser cinereus) of Blair Drum- 

 mond, the descendants of a pair introduced from North Uist 

 about twelve years ago. Among the usual short notices, 

 Mr. Eagle Clarke's record of the occurrence of Scojis giu 

 towards the end of April on the remote island of Foula, in 



