34"2 Recently published Or nJi hoi onical IForks. \lh\^. 



notice sends a delicate sketch from life of tiie (Common 

 and American species swimming together in one Hock. 



Several contributors notice the increase in numbers and 

 in breeding-range of the Great Crested Grebe in Scotland. 

 Mr. Donald Guthrie concludes his notes on the birds of 

 Sotith Uist, and Mr. WilHaiu Evans gives a list of the 

 breeding-places of the Black-headed Gull in the Foith area, 

 one of which in Midlothian according to evidence in his 

 possession has been occupied since the eighteenth century. 



Another contribution from Dr. Eagle Clarke tells us of a 

 surprising account of the attempted nesting of a pair of 

 Bee-eaters in Midlothian. Though occurring not infre- 

 quently in the south of England, it has never yet been 

 known to have nested, although it would probably do so 

 if unmolested. 



Another new record is that of Catherine and T. E. 

 Hodgkin^ who fotxnd a nest of tlie Hrambling in Sutherland 

 in May last. The late Mr. E. T. Booth stated that he had 

 found a nest in Perthshire in 1866, but the record has 

 always been looked on as doubtful. 



Altogether the volume of the ' Scottish Naturalist ' 

 for last year is full of interesting matter, not only in 

 ornithology but in other departments of natural history, 

 and we hope that the appeal of the editor for more sub- 

 scribers and additional funds to carry on the magazine will 

 meet with the response wiiich it deserves. 



List of other Ornithological Publications received. 



Bangs, O. and Penard, T. E. Notes ou American Birds. (Bull. Mus. 



Comp. ZoiU. Ixiv. pp. 365-.397.) 

 Chapman, F. M. Descriptions of apparently uew Birds from Bolivia, 



&c. (Amer. Mus. Novitates, no. 2.) 

 [CouKTOis, K P.] Les Oiseaux du Mus(5e de Zi-ka-wei. (Mem. 



concern. I'hist. nat. de I'Empire Chinois, v. pt. 3, fasc. 1-4.) 

 Grinnell, J. The Caliibruian race oi tlie Brewer Blackbird. The 



existence of sea-birds a relatively safe one. (Condor, xxii, pp. 101- 



103, 1. '52-155.) 



