Recently published Ornithological Works. 359 



must be transferred from T. coluhris to T. iMlylmus, and 

 our well-known Wax wing must be called Bombycilla, while 

 Ampelis is to be used for the Pompadour Cotinga {Xipholena 

 pompaclora), which belongs to a totally different family of 

 Passeres. Dr. Allen, however, is not quite prepared to carry 

 out all tiie changes urged upon us by the new scliool of 

 systematists to the " bitter end/' In one special case he 

 allows that '' to Avrest from certain genera their long recog- 

 nized types " by the strict enforcement of a technicality 

 would produce serious confusion in nomenclature. We 

 may say that many other of the proposed changes would 

 occasion a similar result. 



27. 'Annals of Scottish Natural History ' 



[The Annals of Scottish Natural History. July and October 1907 ^ 

 January 1908.] 



In the July and October numbers of our contemporary 

 Mr. Paterson writes the " Report on Scottish Ornithology 

 for 1906."" This was a late season, but many species proved 

 more common than usual on the autumn passage, and the 

 year was remarkable in particular for Mr. Eagle Clarke's 

 further discoveries at Fair Isle, such as Hirundo rufula, 

 Carpodacus erythrinus, and Emberiza pusilla, which are all 

 duly recorded. In this connexion Mr. Clarke's notes in 

 October and January should also be consulted. In the July 

 number Mr. Harvie-Brown tells us of the annual spring 

 migration of the Woodcock in Forth and Clyde, nearly 

 always punctual to the first ten or fourteen days of March, 

 and apparently unparalleled elsewhere. In the occasional 

 notes the Garganey and Garden-Warbler are reported from 

 Shetland, while the Lesser Whitethroat is stated to have bred 

 at Forfar. In October and January Mr. Bahr has an article 

 on birds observed in the Outer Hebrides during May and 

 June 1907, supplementary to that of Mr. Kinnear in the 

 January and April numbers ; a prosecution is recorded under 

 the ' Wild Birds' Protection Act ' ; the Gadwall is stated to 

 have bred in Peebles-shire, and the Great Snipe to have 

 occurred at Fair Isle. In January the Duchess of Bedford 



