358 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



the Trustees of the British Museum should long ago have 

 been bestowed on him. 



It remains to add that Dr. Sharpe was an honorary LL.D. 

 of the University of Aberdeen, a Fellow of the Linnean and 

 Zoological Societies, a Member of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union, and a recipient of the gold medal for Science, 

 bestowed on him in 1891 by H.I.M. the Emperor of 

 Austria. J. E. H. 



XVI, — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 [Continued from p. 215.] 



29. 'Annals of Scottish Natural History.' 



[The Annals of Scottish Natural History. A Quarterly Magazine, 

 with which is incorporated 'The Scottish Naturalist.' Edinburgh: 

 October 1909-January 1910.] 



The October number contains the report on Scottish 

 Ornithology for 1908 by Mr. J. Paterson, wherein he calls 

 attention to a remarkable period of arrested migration of 

 birds in April, followed by an inrush at the end of that 

 month and in the early days of May. Fair Isle has again 

 proved its excellence as an observatory, and furnished the 

 second British example of the Subalpine Warbler, as well 

 as what was supposed to be the first record for the kingdom 

 of Eversmann's Willow-Warbler, while Savi's Warbler, the 

 Icterine Warbler, the Alpine Accentor, and the Red-throated 

 Pipit were new to Scotland. Careful observation at the Isle 

 of May also resulted in the capture of a Scarlet Grosbeak, 

 but this was a small matter compared with the occurrence of 

 a new British bird on the same island on October 19th, 1909, 

 as recorded by Misses Baxter and Rintoul in the January 

 number. This was Saxicola pleschanka (= S. morio), of 

 which a female of the white-throated form in autumnal 

 plumage was secured and submitted to Mr. Eagle Clarke 

 for inspection : it is now described, with a coloured plate. 

 Further notes on the Isle of May are contributed by the 

 two excellent observers already mentioned, who record at least 



