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a great amount of data regarding the avifauna of his native 

 Aberdeenshire. He travelled tlirough Asia Minor in the 

 summer of 1907, and contributed an interesting paper on his 

 observations there to the 'Ibis,' 1914, pp. 365-387. He also 

 assisted Mr. Eagle Clarke in preparing an account of the 

 ornithology of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 

 of 1902-4, himself contributing several sections. 



In September of last year he joined the 4th Batt. Gordon 

 Highlanders, becoming a sergeant. Later on he obtained 

 a commission, and was sent with the 2nd Batt. of the same 

 resriment to the front. 



XL. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



Blathwayt on the Birds of Lincolnshire. 



[The Birds of Lincolnshire. By the Rev. F. L. Blathwayt, M.A., 

 M.B.O.U. Trans. Lincoln. Nat. Union, Louth, iii. 1915, pp. 178-211.] 



It is a remarkable fact that, notwithstanding its size and 

 its situation, which makes it the landing-place of many rare 

 migrants, no complete list of the birds of Lincolnshire had 

 yet been published until Mr. Blathwayt's, now noticed. 



With the ornithology of Lincolnshire the names of John 

 Cordeaux and Mr. Gr. H. Caton Haigh are always associated 

 as well as that of the present author, but as compared, for 

 instance, with Norfolk, there does not appear to be nearly so 

 much activity among bird-lovers in Lincolnshire, although 

 the opportunities for noticing and recording rare species, at 

 migration time especially, in the narrow strip of country 

 along the coast known as the " marsh "" are very full of 

 promise. 



In the present list, which follows Howard Saunders's 

 nomenclature and arrangement, 296 species are recorded, 

 but of these at least 10 are doubtful. 



Among the rarer species mentioned Phylloscopus viridanus, 

 Lusciniola schwartzi, and Locustella lanceolata were all ob- 

 tained for the first time in the British Islands, at North Cotes, 

 by ISIr. Haigh, while the Bearded Tit, the Kite, the Bittern, 



