720 Recently published Ornitholuyical Works. 



stations as well as by iulaud observers is increasing in a 

 highly satisfactory manner. 



In Mr. Robert Service's notes from the Solway district 

 there occurs a very remarkable record of the capture of a 

 Honey-Buzzard {Pernis apivorus) on January 17th of this 

 year, and, as the narrator examined the bird alive, there can 

 be no doubt about the identification. Among the minor 

 notes, the most interesting is the record by Mr. W. L. 

 MacGillivray of the occurrence of the Barred Warbler 

 {Sylvia nisoria) at Barra, on October 29th last, the specimen 

 having been very properly presented to the Edinburgh 

 Museum : it is the third recorded for Scotland. — H. S. 



117. 'The Auk.' 



[The Auk. A Quai-terly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. xviii. Nos. 1 

 aud 2, January and April 1901.] 



The January number of our contemporary begins with an 

 interesting obituarial notice, with portrait, of our esteemed 

 Foreign Member, Elliott Coues, by Mr. D. G. Elliot ; and 

 this is followed by a similar notice of George B. Sennett, by 

 Professor J. A. Allen. Four well-marked island-forms from 

 San Miguel Island, one of the Pearl' group in the Bay of 

 Panama, are described as new species by Mr. Outram Bangs. 

 Mr. J. H. Fleming contributes a somewhat lengthy paper, 

 with a map, on the birds of Parry Sound and Muskoka, 

 Ontario ; while Mr. E. W. Nelson describes five new species 

 of birds from '' Mexico/' which seems to be used as a geo- 

 graphical expression for anything between Tepic, Guatemala, 

 and Tabasco. A lengthy and valuable paper by Dr. Jonathan 

 D wight, Jr., on the Sequence of Moults and Plumages of 

 the Laridse, is followed by an admirable report of the 

 American Committee for Bird-Protection, the portion by 

 Mr. William Dutcher on the special protection accorded to 

 Gulls and Terns, due to certain funds placed at the dis- 

 posal of the Committee by the benevolence of Mr. Abbott 

 H. Thayer, being particularly noteworthy. As this statement 

 extends over many pages, we cannot even give an abstract 

 of it, and must content ourselves with saying that the results 



