266 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



previously kuown from Scotland, and is only a very rare 

 visitor in England. From St. Kilda Mr. Clarke has received 

 a Water-Rail (Rallus aquaticus) : it was doubtless a passage 

 migrant. 



Mr. Eagle Clarke also describes the plumage of a young 

 female of the Pied Wheatear {(Enanthe leucomela) taken 

 on the island of Swona in the Orkneys. The only British 

 example previously known was one from the Isle of May 

 in 1909. 



Among shorter papers is one by Mr. W. Berry in which 

 he draws attention to the recent extension of the range of 

 the Crested Tit {Purus crlstatus scoticus) into north-eastern 

 Inverness-shire and eastern lloss-shire. Mr. R. Clyue 

 writes on the movements of the Gannet at the Butt of 

 Lewis to and fro from the gannetries at St. Kilda and 

 Stack ; while Mr. William Evans states that the authority 

 for the occurrence of the Levantine Shearwater in Scottish 

 waters is the late Mr. E. T. Booth, <\'ho obtained an example 

 from the Firth of Forth in August 3 874. Tills specimen is 

 now in the Booth Museum at Brighton. 



A good portrait and memoir of the late Mr. J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown is to be found in the September number. 



Yearbook of the Barcelona Science Club. 



[Junta de ciencies naturals de Barcelona, Auuari 1916. Barcelona.} 



This Annual is issued in connection with a new Museum 

 recently founded at Barcelona. It had its origin in the 

 private collection, chiefly in conchology and archaeology, 

 of Seiior Martorell i Penya, who bequeathed not only the 

 collections but also his house, furniture, and library to the 

 city of Barcelona, as well as a considerable sum of money 

 for upkeep. 



The only contribution of ornithological interest in the 

 Annual is a list of the collection of birds, which seems 

 hardly worthy of so fine a Museum as this appears to be, 

 judging from the photographs reproduced in the volume. 

 There are, however, a number of contributions dealing with 



