264 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



Provence and of M. E. Coursimault on the birds found 

 round about Vendonie. This writer i)a3'S special attention 

 to tlie songs and notes of the various species and in many 

 cases reduces tliem to musical notation. 



M. Brasil is able to record the cupinre oi Larits g lane us 

 and Dnjobates inedius, both in the Department of Calvados. 

 The first of these was a female in quite adult livery, a 

 plumage in which these birds are seldom taken on the 

 French coast ; the second is probably a new record for 

 Calvados. ^ 



A special supplement to the February number is devoted 

 to an article by Dr. 11. Didier on the Tufted Puffin on the 

 North Pacific {Lunda cirrhata). It is illustrated by a 

 lithographic plate. 



M. A. Hughes writes on the habits of Cisticola cisticola 

 in southern France. He believes that it is undoubtedly a 

 resident and does not migrate to any extent. This is borne 

 out by the habits of the other members of the genus found 

 chiefly in Africa. 



An interesting note by M. E-eboussin comments on the 

 numbers of birds to be seen and heard in the country to 

 the north of Verdun, notwithstanding the constant artillery 

 duels going on day and night. Similar statemeiits have 

 been made by some of our English observers se\:ving in the 

 trenches in other parts of the line. 



The Scottish Naturalist, 



[The Scottish Naturalist. A Monthly Magazine devoted to Zoology, 

 Jan.-Dec, 19X6.] 



Among ornithological contributors to the 1916 volume of 

 the 'Scottish Naturalist,' Miss Baxter and Miss Rintoul take 

 a prominent place with several articles of special interest. 

 Their first paper deals with the moulting of northern 

 breeding birds in their winter quarters. This is found to be 

 very extensive in many species such as the Ped-throated 

 Pipit {Anthus cervinus), two males of which, taken in 

 February on the Andaman Islands, were in full moult, 

 not only as regards the body-feathers but also the wing- 



