356 Recently published OrniUiologicanVorks. 



E. pusilla, E. Jiortulana, Turtur communis, Totanus uchropus, 

 and other species of less importance are recorded on 

 Mr. W. E. Clarke-'s authority from Fair Isle, while it may- 

 be noted that Corvus corone has also occurred there; an 

 early nest of Phalacrocorax graculus is noticed from Orkney 

 (Feb. 24th) ; two pairs of Somateria moUissima remained 

 from April to August on the Solway Firth; a pair of 

 (Edicnemns sculopax are reported from Lerwick on May 20th ; 

 Fringilla montifringilla and Scolopax rusticula {cf. Annals, 

 1907, p. 144) seem to have been unusually plentiful in Scot- 

 land ; and, finally, forty-two nests o{ Megalestris catarrhactes 

 were counted in the breeding-season at Hermaness in Unst. 



A short paper by Mr. W. Evans on the origin of the 

 present colony of Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Scotland, 

 in which the author inclines to the view of an English rather 

 than a Scandinavian source of supply, is preceded by an 

 article on the same species by Mr. Harvie-Brown, who 

 elaborates and maps out for us with his usual accuracy the 

 gradual extension of the bird''s range since 1841 or 1851. 

 In the map present summer-records and records of breeding, 

 ancient records, and those of winter are duly represented by 

 various signs or dates, so that we can take in the facts at a 

 glance, and sec for ourselves how distinct this new colony is 

 Irom the old, whose breeding area lay to the north of the 

 Grampians. In the letterpress the gradual extension north- 

 ward and southward since the first nest was found in 1887 at 

 Duns, in Berwickshire, is carefully ti-aced, while a specimen 

 of the schedules used in the investigation is printed for the 

 guidance of others. The author furthermore discusses the 

 route by which this species is likely to spread still further 

 to the north, and ventures to prophecy that it will be by 

 way of the Dee. 



Mr. H. B. Watt follows with a list of Scottish Heronries, 

 past and present, but we are afraid that he has omitted to 

 consult certain books or papers on local avifauna ; Muirhead's 

 ' Birds of Berwickshire ' and the articles in the ' History of 

 the Berwickshire Naturalists^ Club^ would, for instance, 

 have enabled him to be more accurate with regard to some 



