502 Recently published Ornitholof/ical Works. 



XXX. — Notices of recent OrnitJioloyical PublicatioJts. 



[Continued from p. 351.] 

 74. ' Annals of Scottish Natural History.' 



[The Annals of Scottish Natural History. No. 41, .January 1902, and 

 No. 42, April 1902.] 



The first number of this journal contains an interestinjE^ 

 article by Mr. Charles Campbell on a large Starling- roost on 

 Cramond Island in the Firth of Forth. IVIr. T. G. Gunnis 

 follows with details of the shooting, on Tiree, of the example 

 of Porzatia Carolina which was exhibited by Mr. E. Lort 

 Phillips at the British Ornithologists' Club on IS^ovember 

 20th last, being the third recognition in the British Islands of 

 this black-faced American representative of our Spotted Crake. 

 Among the IN^otes are remarks on migrants in the south of 

 Shetland, on considerable immigrations of Waxwings, on 

 occurrences of the Great Snipe in Shetland as well as in 

 Orkney, and on an exhibition of the first specimen of the 

 Green Sandpiper from the Outer Hebrides. In the number 

 for April, Mr. T. G. Laidlaw gives his usual Annual Report 

 on the IMovements and Occurrences of Birds in Scotland for 

 1901 — a most useful epitome ; while ]VIr. Harvie-Brown 

 contributes an introductory article on additions to the 

 ornithological knowledge of the Outer Hebrides acquired 

 since 1888. Among the Notes, Mr. W. Eagle Clarke 

 records further arrivals of Greenland Rcdjiolls; while an 

 example of Tengmalm's Owl was obtained in Shetland on 

 INTovember 5th, 1901, and presented to the Edinburgh 

 Museum. Mr. G. Sim states that a Little Owl {Athene 

 nuctua), the first for Scotland, was obtained in Kincardine- 

 shire on February 1st; the breeding of the Pintail in 

 Selkirkshire is recorded ; and Mr. W. Eagle Clarke writes 

 that he has received for identification specimens of Sterna 

 fluviatilis from a considerable colony breeding on an inland 

 loch in Shetland, the first authenticated instance for the 

 group. — H. S. 



