191 7-] Recently published Ornithological Works. 623 



Harterfj Nov, Zool. xxiii. p. 91, and Ibis, 1916, p. 509), 

 recorded from south-west Africa. Its breeding range is 

 confined to the arctic coast of Yukon and Alaska, and the 

 opposite north-eastern coast of Siberia. It passes through 

 the middle States in autumn and spring, being but seldom 

 observed on the Atlantic or Pacific sea-board, and winters 

 in the Argentine and Chile, where it has been taken as high 

 up as 13,000 feet in the Andes. 



Mr. Dixon visited its breeding home in the summers of 

 1913 and 1914, and in this short paper describes its nesting 

 and other habits during that time. A sketch-map shows the 

 exact position of the recorded breeding places, and there are 

 photographs of the bird on its nest and the eggs in situ, as 

 well as of some eggs taken by Mr. W. S. Brooks at Demar- 

 cation Point, Alaska, in June 1914 and now preserved in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. 



Douglas on Irish Woodcock. 



[An experimental investigation of the migration of "Woodcock 

 breeding in the west of Ireland. By S, R. Douglas, M.R.C.S., etc., etc. 

 P. Z. S. 1917, pp. 159-165.] 



In order to find out whether Irish-breeding Woodcocks 

 migrated to any extent, Capt. Douglas undertook a series 

 of ringing experiments on Col. W. W. Ashley's estate in 

 Co. Sligo where breeding Woodcocks are abundant. Between 

 the years 1910 and 1916, 331 young birds were ringed. Of 

 these, 55 (about 16 per cent.) were recovered. All of these 

 with the exception of three were recovered on the estate or 

 within ten miles of it, and only one, reported from north 

 Spain, was taken outside Ireland. Capt. Douglas considers 

 therefore that in Ireland, at any rate, the great bulk of the 

 nestling birds remain in the same locality throughout the 

 following winter months, and that even if later on they do 

 migrate to other places, they return to nest. The Spanish- 

 killed bird was certainly an exception ; it was killed in the 

 November of the same year (1914) in which it was ringed 

 as a nestling. 



