730 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



X XXV. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 [Continued from p. 565.] 



73. ' Annals of Scottish Natural History. ' 



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

 with which is incorporated the ' Scottish Naturalist.' April, July, 1910.] 



Fair Isle continues to hold its own as a field for the 

 northern ornithologist and the student of migration, while it 

 appeals to us all strongly as an outpost towards the boreal 

 regions. We are, therefore, always glad to read Mr. Eagle 

 Clarke's annual reports, of which the fifth is in the April 

 number of this magazine. He promises us a separate and 

 full account of the birds of the Isle shortly, and meanwhile 

 recounts as new for 1909 the following six species : — Cross- 

 bill ('Annals/ 1909, p. 215; 1910, p. 54), White-spotted 

 Bluethroat, Pink-footed, Bernacle, and Brent Geese, and Grey 

 Phalarope. The Crossbills appear to be representatives of a 

 slender-billed race from the far north of Europe and Siberia. 

 With regard to the record of the breeding of the White 

 Wagtail, we may draw attention to that of Mr. J. H. Dixon 

 in his work on ' Gairloch in B-oss- shire/ The White- spotted 

 Bluethroat has never before been obtained in Scotland, and 

 only on three occasions elsewhere in Britain. 



Other communications to the April number are those of 

 Mr. 11. B. Watt on Scottish Heronries, with additions to and 

 corrections of his former paper (1908, p. 218), and of Mr. 

 H. S. Gladstone on a specimen of the American Bittern shot 

 at Loch Martnaham in Dumfriesshire in 1898, the newspaper 

 report of which he finds in a scrap-book of the late Sir William 

 Jardine, belonging to Mr. Ilarvie-Brown, who called his 

 attention to the entry. Finally, Mr. W. Evans, in reference 

 to his note (' Annals,' 1899, p. 14) on the supposed eggs of the 

 Wood-Sandpiper taken near Elgin by Mr. Thurnall in 1853, 

 quotes from letters of Sir Edward Newton to Professor Alfred 

 Newton, which clearly shew that the finder was mistaken in 

 his identification of the eggs. In the ' Zoological Notes ' we 

 should mention those on Crossbills from the north-east coast 

 and on the Great Spotted Woodpecker by Mr. Haivie-Brown ; 



