124 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



"totally different" from the large-billed Scottish bird which 

 is commonly referred to it, which he calls L. curvirostra 

 scotica (cf. Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 120). Lastly, Dr. Hartert 

 writes of the forms of Passer simplex. 



13. Harvie-Brown and Macpherson on the Birds of the 

 North-west Highlands. 



[A Fauna of the North-west Highlands and Skye. By J. A. Harvi«- 

 Brown and Rev. II. A. Macpherson. Edinburgh : David Douglas, l'J04. 

 Pp. civ & 372. Price 30s.] 



The present volume of the ' Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland ' 

 brings ns very near to the completion of the series, so far as 

 the country north of the Forth aud Clyde is concerned, 

 only the areas of " Tay " aud "Dec" remaining, for the 

 former of which ample materials are already to hand. Part 

 of this instalment consists of supplementary information on 

 the districts west of the watersheds between Cape Wrath and 

 Loch Broom, treated in the first volume, while the re- 

 mainder traverses the North-west Highlands to the boundary 

 of the area of " Argyll," a coloured map of the whole 

 country being supplied for reference. 



While the greatest interest attaches to these parts of 

 Scotland, which include the former sites of the nests of so 

 many White-tailed Eagles, Kites, and Ospreys, and are the 

 present haunts of so large a number of Golden Eagles — not 

 to mention Snow-Buntings, Divers, aud other rare birds, — the 

 district is remarkably poor both in species and individuals ; 

 moreover, the lines of flight of our migrants impinge but 

 little upon its shores. The large deer-forests, however, are 

 a specially interesting feature, and this area was of old 

 the home of many martens, polecats, and other mammals, 

 some of which are verging upon extinction. Sections are 

 devoted in particular to Handa, Priest Island, and the islands 

 near Skye, on the first of which the Fulmar Petrel has lately 

 been found breeding. 



The volumes of this series are so well known that it is 

 unnecessary to particularise further than to say that the 

 usual treatment of the subject is followed, the historical and 



