360 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



gives the results of a visit to the Shetlands, Orkneys^ Flannan 

 Isles, and Hebrides in June, and again to the last-named in 

 August ; Misses Rintoul and Baxter furnish us with ' Bird- 

 Notes from the Isle of May/ where they were so fortunate 

 as to meet with the Yellow-browed Warbler, the Barred 

 Warbler, the Scarlet Grosbeak, and the Lapland Bunting ; 

 and an appreciative obituary notice is given of the late 

 How^ard Saunders, whose loss we all feel no less acutely than 

 that of Professor Newton, similarly memorialized in the July 

 number. A good portrait is given is each case. 



28. 'The Auk.' 



[The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Oruitliology. Vol. xxiv. Nos. 3, 4 

 (July and October 1907) ; Vol. xxv. No. 1 (January 1908).] 



These three numbers of our contemporary are largely con- 

 cerned, with the avifauna of special districts. Mr. Cameron 

 writes on the birds of Custer and Dawson Counties, Montana, 

 and in the course of a paper running through all three 

 parts gives a very full account of the species noticed by him 

 during the last eighteen years, with ten plates and two maps. 

 The article is founded on Capt. Thome's list of 137 species 

 from Fort Keogh, but even now only 19 can be classed as 

 permanent residents. Among the more important details 

 given are the description of the " play " of the Sage- 

 and Sharp-tailed Grouse, the records of the Canada Goose 

 breeding in trees, and the Lazuli Bunting in holes in their 

 trunks, the notes on a great irruption of Phalaropes in May 

 1899, and others on the habits of the Waxwing and Cedar- 

 bird. In the July number Messrs. Beyer, Allison, and 

 Kopman continue their useful list of the Birds of Loui- 

 siana, with comparatively short notes; while in October 

 and January Mr. Bent gives an admirable account of the 

 birds of South-west Saskatchewan, where the flats, with 

 their numerous lakes and islands, are a veritable paradise of 

 water-fowl — especially Ducks, — though these are in some 

 danger of extermination. In July, moreover, Mr. Outram 

 Bangs writes on a collection of skins from Western Costa 

 Rica, obtained by Mr. C. F. Underwood in spring and summer 



